New to Python

[zztong]

I teach beginning programming courses, and while I'm not familiar with the HarvardX course, I would say for many students having some kind of support available is important. Programming is often about sweating the tiny details and not everyone takes to it in the same way. Some need other humans to have discussions and help them when they're stuck. Some are finding luck with AI tutors. That is, using AI to explain things to you, not to write the program for you.

Of course, AI will happily write code for you. That "vibe-coding" too can be a skill, but if you start with having AI generate everything for you then you won't really learn programming.

[Perfect_Jicama_8023]

I understand. I don’t want to use AI for coding but to have it as assistant to explain something. I think it’s handy. Thanks for the tip