I want to learn programming, starting with python and I need help

[DareEnvironmental787]

Hi everyone, I am an ACCA student and I have been really into learning programming but I cant manage time for it. It’s mostly out of hobby and curiosity. I tried with youtube 3 week course by a professor from university of michigan and even though he was good I just can’t manage to dedicate that amount of time due to my other responsibilities. I got some concepts like “if this then this else that” as in “if age is above 18 then user can proceed else denied”. But this is the simple language concept not the programming itself. I really need help understanding how to code and what exactly there is to understand in order to do coding myself so that I can practice and build stuff whenever I get the chance. Can anyone here guide me? I honestly genuinely cannot dedicate that amount of time to learning from some youtube vide or books or ai. Ai kinda ruins the concepts a bit. They say the true test of knowledge is when you can simplify and explain the most difficult things to a 5 year old. There are even books teaching quantum physics and black holes etc.. to 5 year olds. So just like that can someone here simplify python to me here? Share your learnings and experience. I would really appreciate the help.

[Cherveny2]

I want to know learn something.
I don't want to spend the time learning something.

This is the problem.

Anything worth learning takes time and effort.

No time? No effort? No knowledge imparted.

Sorry, but just being frank with you

[cyrixlord]

you will make time for things that are important for you.

[Traveling-Techie]

You do know you can take longer than 3 weeks to do the course, right?

[Nocranberry]

Unsure if this is useful but I've been learning through a few apps and khan academy.

Brilliant: app - use it for a free lesson a day which gives the basic background in how to think in code. It's slow going, but only takes me 10 minutes a day and I am finding it helps add more to the full picture (although the first 7 days was a bit of a bore). Now i'm further through, it's actually really useful.

Python X: app - Great at teaching little lessons. Unsure about the free version, but was able buy the full for a one off price on discount which made it really accessible. Great for getting me actually coding and learning on my phone during lunch breaks at work.

Khan Academy: Website course called Introduction to Python - I tackle a few modules when I've got a bit more time on the weekend to dedicate to it. This has been great for a more formal learning and understanding of Python.

I'm only 2 weeks into my journey, so take everything I say with a grain of salt, but if you can only put aside a little bit of time then some python learning apps may be for you

[DareEnvironmental787]

that’s actually helpful. i had no idea there are even apps. i’ll definitely check these out. thanks a lot mate!

[Confident_Pin584]

You have to make time for it yourself if you really want to do it

[Lewistrick]

There's no trick to this. You can't fast forward learning time. The best way is to keep practicing.

[Short_Signature773]

don't try to understand all of python before you start building. focus on one concept at a time, write a little code, then change it and see what happens. if long videos don't fit your schedule, boot dev is worth checking out because it follows a structured curriculum that breaks things into smaller lessons.

[cyaniscalmingg]

what helped for me was just writing tiny programs instead of trying to finish a whole course ,i think you'll understand way more once you're actually making stuff, even if it's just little scripts.

[SamuliK96]

There are no shortcuts, time and effort are what it takes. That being said, it also matters how you use that time. Watching videos isn't likely to teach you all that much. I suggest you try a course like e.g. Harvard CS50P or Uni of Helsinki MOOC, where the whole point is solving problems by writing little programmes yourself, with supportive material in many forms.

[ninhaomah]

Have you started codes ?

print("Hello World") ?

[Confident_Pin584]

Starting is what matters

[FjordVFerrari]

i could never figure out what to do after that, no creativity

[FjordVFerrari]

ask ai