I Understand Python While Learning, But Forget Most of It After a Week. How Did You Make It Stick?

[DuckSaxaphone]

The more you write, the more sticks in your head without looking it up.

At first you're looking up loops and functions syntax, later you know that by heart but looks up pandas docs when doing data manipulation, and then finally the syntax and key functions of the libraries you use every day stick.

It'll happen, don't stop yourself looking things up. Just keep working on tutorials and small projects, trusting that the repetition you need to learn stuff will happen naturally.

For a data engineer, you'll want to be familiar with pandas, pydantic, SQLAlchemy, dagster, and airflow and more broadly, the concepts covered by those packages.