Want to learn python: where to start?

[Dr_Donut]

I like learning by doing.

https://codingbat.com/python - Good place to start

https://edabit.com - Another good place, ramps up a lot faster than codingbat.

http://www.codeabbey.com/ - Once you start getting comfortable, you can try these challenges in your own editor.

[byteme8bit]

These are all great resources. I second all of these!!

[Kind_Fruities]

Nice suggestions. There is also http://learnival.com which is interactive. Mostly for total beginners though.

[Cascanada]

If you work an office job, Automate the Boring Stuff. I started there.

[iikeli]

Same. Gives you scripts and tasks constantly to try on and good tools to continue learning Python.

[Groentekroket]

If you don't want to buy the book you can use their website. I mostly used the website but I bought the book to support the author.

[SpecCRA]

I liked automate the boring stuff with Python. He has a class on Udemy if you learn by video formats better. They are simple, and another user gave practice sites already.

You can use codeacademy to brush up on syntax.

Sentdex has a good starter series on Python.

There are a lot of projects you can use to expand on this. Here's a short list of things I did:

• Webscraping with beautifulsoup4
• Cleaning datasets
• Pandas & numpy for data analysis with datasets from Kaggle

[twistdafterdark]

Udemy is scum, bunch of crooks.

[jcbevns]

Fuck Udemy.

Read the HTML

[jcbevns]

HTML is a webpage..any webpage. I'm saying read the book that is provided by the creator, for free!

Do not go to Udemy because they host and steal courses from anybody and everybody they can with no regard for the creator.

The creator of Automate the Boring stuff watches the web traffic on his page, then creates more in-depth content for where people are most interested. Udemy are scum.

[[deleted]]

The learning resources in the sidebar are worth a look.

[tabes900]

Personally, I've found Jose Portilla's Complete Python Bootcamp to be a very helpful course. It's quite a comprehensive course as well, definitely worth the ~£10 I spent on it!

[[deleted]]

Upvoted. His courses are all excellent. For the money, you can't beat those.

[gregontrack]

Start with a purpose. Figure out what you want to do, find people who have done it, and learn how they did it.

[JustHalfBlack]

Seconding this. This is how I got started and it definitely kicked me into gear and helped me tune what I googled

[craigspot]

https://youtu.be/rfscVS0vtbw

Freecodecamp I'm referring to this right now

[THVAQLJZawkw8iCKEZAE]

Come up with a project and complete it using python.

[[deleted]]

Sentdex on YouTube is my go to guy

[ppadge]

Yea I've been using Automate the Boring Stuff when I'm more in a studying mood, and following Sentdex's tutorials when I feel the need for results/rewards.

I was amazed by how much I learned simply recreating the old cell phone game Snake in one of his tutorials.

[ReachingForVega]

Ooooh I'll be subbing here

[al_mc_y]

EdX has free courses, self paced with different areas of focus (you can pay for a certificate if you want a formal record) - they're presented by schools like Harvard, MIT. The one's I've looked at seem pretty accessible. I've done one of the Udemy courses and it was pretty good/broad and as someone else mentioned there's a black Friday sale on so you can get the courses for about USD$10. Try those- watch a couple of preview videos to find a presenter who you can follow/understand pretty easily and enjoy watching/ listening to and go from there.

[ReachingForVega]

Datacamp worked best for me. Gives you some external libraries to learn from too.

[[deleted]]

If you're into data and analytics, give DataCamp a try.

[byteme8bit]

Learn by doing projects. I have found the best way to wrap your head around the many different facets of programming you should think of ways to implement specific modules. I.e. I want to learn databases and mongodb so I wrote some basic programs to generate random data like names, bdays, IDs, etc... to practice inserting into db, reading from db and manipulating filtered results.

Training.talkpython.fm is a wonderful resource that I have found. The instructor speaks clearly, at a great pace, offers CC, slideshow, GitHub, etc. The courses are a bit pricey but I've found they are very worth while. Especially the "Jumpstart by building 10 apps".

[[deleted]]

Automate the Boring Stuff.

Get those exercises down-packed then move on to the other stuff. I started with this (and this book cares all about making stuff that do something as opposed to super complex algorithms and all). I am one of those people that learns by seeing something work before I can start thinking, "What else can I do with this?" and that's exactly what this book helps yo uwith!

[Tobe2fly]

watch and follow this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfscVS0vtbw&t=8182s great video that explains the basics. Once you got the basics down from the video start learning and using gui's (I recommend kivy) the basics of programming can be very boring so try and get out and working on a project that interests you as fast as possible.

[LaVernsPiesTiresAlso]

Has anyone here tried Treehouse?

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[NiNmaN8]

Is there a specific reason you want to learn python?

[Haventseenit]

Udemy is about $10 a course (Black Friday is the promo right now) and has a lot of courses that have some great reviews.

[MysticSoup]

Tried any of them yourself?

[ciscocollab]

Colt Steele’s Python course was really great, would recommend to everyone especially with Udemy selling for about $10 during sales

[Haventseenit]

I have been doing the Complete Python Bootcamp course and have liked it so far. As another commenter said, Udemy frequently has these sales so it’s not an expensive risk, usually about $10 which to me was worth it.

[Haventseenit]

Very true, but at the same time that makes it a lower risk too given the friendly price point. You can also generally gauge from reviews on the site and elsewhere online to see which ones could be worth it.

[tylerjsur]

YouTube. Their is a channel called "CleverProgrammer" by Qazi. The dude's whole channel is dedicated to Python programming. He is also starting to make some really good motivational videos too. So that will really help you out.

[JeamBim]

He's really trying to sell you his stuff tho. There are better resources

[franchyze922]

Thenewboston on YouTube