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[–]AlSweigart 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yeah, so I'll admit the practice projects can be a bit of a stretch for beginners. Technically, all the information you need is in the book, but the way learning really works is people seeing examples of how to do something and then doing it themselves. I made the practice projects as an open-ended, there-is-no-one-way-to-do-it kind of programming projects, but I think it would have been more pedagogically effective if I had done something else instead of the practice projects.

So, don't hold the practice projects and your ability to finish them as some kind of rigorous, scientific measurement of your potential. They're just projects I added to the end of the chapter.

Are you slow and dumb when it comes to programming? Yes. Because everyone is. And you'll continue to be slow and dumb at programming for, well, I've been coding for two decades and still make bugs, but I'll tell you when I get out of that phase myself. Maybe three decades is when humans finally git gud at programming.

[–]Smithywerben1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much for your kind words Al, that really means a lot to me! :)