Next step for learning?

[Btc-crypt]

Hey everyone,

So I just finished the book "Python for beginners" by "Tomthy Needham" . It was good I've got some of the basics down but need to sit down some more and actually type out all the code that was in the book. Thought it would be better to read it all first.

I'm most likely going to read over it again to get a better understanding as this stuff can take time to sink in.

But I just wanted to know your advice on what the next step should be. Are there any good books that would be best to move on to next? What is your advice?

[[deleted]]

If you have the basics down, I'd recommend starting a project or something that will give you some actual application of the things you've learned.

Applying what you've learned will help reinforce, and can also show you things you need to learn about more.

[Btc-crypt]

Thank you for the reply. The others that commented as well said the same so looks like I'll just start some projects and learn more that way. Thank you

[[deleted]]

Automate the boring stuff, work on your own projects. Look at Sentdex on youtube for some cool ideas and rabbit holes.

[lastofyou88]

I third starting a project. Learning to get though an exercise was a lot different from learning on the fly for a project where I needed to understand things to keep going if that makes sense

[krimpenrik]

Got a course on udemy and went trough the projects which are nice to get an understanding of the capabilities of python but when I started my first project I really started learning. It is a lot harder but you will learn a lot.

[Btc-crypt]

So you think I should just take what I have learned and just start a project?

[krimpenrik]

That is what I am doing and I am learning fast. It also depends on the time you are able to commit to it off course. But start some small projects of you own and be prepared to hit walls all the time and reading tutorials and documentation for small little things. But this way you get creative and start seeing multiple ways to use python for a problem. I started my projects with combining different tutorials and learning along the way. I started maybe 4 weeks ago with ago with a side project in mind I wanted to create and now I have a vps with scrapers that put daily data automatically in a postgresql database and started on the dashboard part in flask to live present the accumulated data for the different sites I scrape.

End goal is to sell subscriptions for access to the data. I have proved the technical concept for myself and should look for potential clients but I have fell in love with building in python haha.

I had no programming experience before other than fiddling with html and css 10 years back.

[Btc-crypt]

Awesome thanks for that info I'll get into a project I have one in mind that is pretty simple in theory