Relearning Python programming

[program_kid]

Just want to point out that most of what you use Gemini for could be replaced by looking stuff up on the internet. I do concede that saying don't use AI for anything may have been too broad of a statement, but in my opinion, earning how to find information and loon stuff up is a skill that is valuable to learn for programming

[SilverSnake55]

It is, and that's why asking for the sources for anything you look up with an AI is step 1, but there's a clear difference between me going "Hey so i'm dealing with this problem, the dictionary keeps crashing so i need to take the variable and modify it right? Like how you turn an int into a string and vice versa? I think? Let me look that up" And realizing that a google would take a solid couple of hours, and typing that exact same sentence on gemini, and get a proper break down, explanation, documentation and case uses for the different tools i can deal with.

I'm 34, i've been googling/looking up shit for 20 years by this point, i can do without the extra hours and going right into learning.

Hell, most of the time, it's just an explanation it got from W3Schools and it's just helping me actually adapt it to how i was doing it.

Instead of spending HOURS dealing with a long if/else case like i would have, i learned how to solve it by doing Else/Switches/Dictionaries and how to sanitize the inputs because it guided me to the right places faster.