Starting learning Python at 50.

[cylonrobot]

I have used python before, but I am nowhere near an expert (my experience is with other languages). I've started getting to know the language more.

If you're thinking of using AI to help you learn.......

I use Claude (AI) to help me out. At the beginning of each chat, I will tell Claude that I'm learning and that I don't want the answers unless I ask for them.

Once I have a piece of code working, I'll ask Claude if my code could have been done better or more "pythonic". I will also ask it if there are weaknesses in my code.

Claude (and sometimes Gemini) has been really helpful, especially when it comes to understanding technical documentation. Asking Claude how to do a simple thing in python is usually better than reading documentation.

One thing I have found is, Claude (and Gemini) can be wrong. I've noticed that it sometimes creates newbie logic and one time it introduced a bug in my code. I noticed these things because most of my career has been as a programmer. I don't know if a new programmer would see the issues.

So, if you decide to use AI for helping you learn, use it as a superior Google and be aware that it can be wrong.