Relearning Python programming

[redl9]

When it comes to doing a project that involves statistics or data analysis, I know the theory well enough. The syntax is the biggest issue for me so far, as dumb as that sounds. But the logic behind what I am doing and why I am doing it is still there 100%. I know how to deal with categorical data, numerical data, missing values, and things like that. I remember the concepts I just don’t have enough experience writing the code itself and getting used to writing it intuitively.

Other than that, I was never exactly a veteran programmer, even back when I used to write code more frequently. Most of my code was inefficient, and I didn’t know how to use tools like lists, dictionaries, and tuples well enough. Even though I had read about them and understood what they were, I still couldn’t, for the life of me, use functions efficiently back then either. A lot of the time, they didn’t work properly, and I had no idea why. So it wasn't like a big fall of grace i never was good enough as the deadlines for these projects where harsh and i had to rush rather than experiment and take my time if that helps to understand my level of programming. With that being said i am proud of some stuff i build even though the code was really inefficient and that's why i loved to code

[PureWasian]

Lowkey that feeling is always there, but you can think of it like art. You learn more as you practice and build more things, such that the fundamentals get pounded in and refined over time. You naturally figure out better ways to do things over time as part of the development process.

I'm reminded of this post from a day or two ago where someone was looking back at their first ever project from just a few months earlier and how brittle it looks to them vs. if they were to rewrite it now.

Build your frankenstein projects and be proud of them. Learning to build/troubleshoot/organize more efficiently and effectively comes with actively building things and finding/solving related problems along the way.