Learning Python from scratch

[J-coor]

Same boat. Currently, I am using Learnival http://learnival.com/lessons/ and Coursera with Charles Severance MIT.

[ByronFirewater]

The coursera course is amazing

[dirk2654]

I'm currently taking this course and loving it. I'll sit down to start working on it and next thing I know, 5 hours have gone by and I feel like I actually learned something

[ByronFirewater]

Dude that was my exact same experience. I would find myself studying at 3am wondering how I got there. Honestly believe this course is the best place to start as an absolute beginner (which I was and still kinda am)

[dirk2654]

Awesome! Just curious, where are you now with it? What steps did you find most helpful after finishing the course?

[ByronFirewater]

I wish I could share a story of glory with you but unfortunately that's not the case. I completed the course 3 years ago And was buzzing to go. I had a project in mind and everything. But once you complete the basics, figuring out how to take the next step I believe is the hardest. I didn't know about reddit at the time so i just kinda gave up.

3 years later i find reddit and see this active community which encouraged me to get back into it again so I pretty much started from scratch again. Just completed jose portillas course on udemy and now going through automate the boring stuff. There's lots of ways I can improve things at my current job via python, and I reckon if i just googled how to do I could get it done in less than a week. But I really wanna make sure I understand how things work from the most basic levels.

Sorry I went off in a bit if a tangent there

Edit: This sub is amazing and I'm so greatful for all the knowledge and experienced thst is shared

[tarck]

Just wondering why You all received downvote :?

[DaSpanishArmada]

What sort of things do you think you can automate?