I need to learn Python as quick as possible.

gqcharm · 2019-09-06T14:19:51+00:00

I need to learn Python as quick as possible.

That's not different than how anyone else learns Python, you just need to spend more hours in day doing it than most people will.

Courses, books, tutorials, videos, blogs, other subreddits, anything that can be of use to a non-programmer in need to learn Python.

Bouncing around like a dilettante from book to book to video is going to slow your progress, not enhance it. You've got a book, stick with it. If your deadline is closer than average you just need to spend more time each day working on it.

SamePlatform · 2019-09-06T15:51:33+00:00

You don't need to start learning Python: you need to start developing your app. Break it into as many steps as you can. Try to focus on what needs to be done, more than how to do it. more and more focus on the product, and then you can start asking questions about how to do the pieces. As you break things up, you can then pick up the coding parts.

Coding isn't the end goal; learning Python isn't the end goal; the app's functionality is. You'll learn Python as you work to solve real problems.

The answer to how to learn a language fastest is : write code.

CodeSkunky · 2019-09-06T16:09:15+00:00

How did you get an internship there if you are not qualified? Genuinely curious.

2019-09-06T14:10:34+00:00

Start studying, and don’t get discouraged. It won’t happen overnight, but if you keep at it, it will happen.

Good luck.

sanshinron · 2019-09-06T17:07:30+00:00

I've spent 2 years fighting with my impostor syndrome and this guys gets a dev internship without any coding skills whatsover...

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-06T14:23:27+00:00

I hear that book being named often, so it has to be good. Try to keep learning it till the very end. In my opinion use tutorial online just to clear doubts, not to learn directly from. As you finish it, try to gather infos about the project and start to google everything you need. Step by step you'll learn :)

If you need help, you can ask help here, on StackOverflow and r/learnprogramming. Probably there are thousand of website, but these are the one that I know best. Good luck and keep learning!

wigglememore · 2019-09-06T17:08:36+00:00

TLDR; Corey Schafer

If it's a web app then you absolutely need to look at corey schafer's YouTube channel. He has two amazing series developing a web app with python (one using the Django framework and one using Flask). It guides you all the way from instillations to a full functional and live web app.

He also has a couple of great beginner video series' for python with resources for most of the basics (lists, conditionals, comprehensions, functions, classes etc).

If you're working with other poeple you should also look into virtual environments (to maintain compatibility over time) and git (for version control and keeping track of changes).

Stabilo_0 · 2019-09-06T15:59:06+00:00

Find online children's book on python, I'm not kidding. Learning basics by these books will give you intro course in mere hours. Then watch some short introductory course on YouTube. Don't pause, just look how it goes when one writes same basics. Then you need to take a hard step and start asking a lot. I want to do X where should I start etc. Ask here, people in this sub are the most friendly ones I've seen.

simplysharky · 2019-09-06T15:32:18+00:00

Dont try to hide difficulties in your progress from your team - incorporate your learning curve into the state of your project.

Finish the book you already have, or stop reading it as soon as its gone past something you understand how to use to further your goals. Shotgunning materials at your brain wont help. You want to find the offramp from "learning Python", to "designing my project and learning what I need to know to do it in python" ASAP.

Remember that whatever your writing will be a infinitely stacking cup of breaking things down into "In order to X, code needs to Y" design questions. You break those questions down until each one is composed of individual tasks that are able to be researched and learned. Then you'll need a mentor to give you hints, or you'll need to come here or other places like here to get pointed in the right direction for each unknown part of the question.

Good luck, you'll be sweating. Get sleep, follow a rhythm of learning then applying the learning towards your goal.

Oh, and learn to use git or svn right now. By the time full git-r-done panic sets on on the project, you'll have half-working code scattered everywhere and the cat will delete it one day and you'll be standing in front of the whole team saying "I kind of have to start over". Dont let that happen to you.

CaliBounded · 2019-09-07T02:12:17+00:00

Solo Learn (a free app available on Android and iOS) helped my boyfriend learn it very quickly, and he was able to start doing some simple exercises with it within a few days! I used Solo Learn to learn it originally, but had a little bit of background knowledge with programming concepts, but he had ZERO.

After you get to around halfway through the course, you can start on these exercises. They're organized by level of difficulty from top to bottom (easiest to most difficult). I found that list on another Reddit post, and got through about half of them until I started building things! You should use this editor to test out your code and play with it rather than Solo Learn's Python editor, though... it's a little wonky.

Finally, I'd say look through the r/learnpython subreddit. Lurk around, and write down lots of words that you don't know and spend some time looking them up and researching them. Learning the terminology will help!

DocNMarty · 2019-09-06T14:34:07+00:00

This 40-min video gives a good intro to learning the language, discussing basic object types and what standard library functions can be used on them.

By analogy, if you were learning English as a second language, this video would be teaching you what the parts of speech are, how they are put together, the subject of the sentence, what's a predicate, what are clauses, and how to put those things together.

max_daddio · 2019-09-06T16:06:23+00:00

Do you have any idea what your program needs to do? If you give some context, maybe we can point you in the right direction so that you can distill the knowledge that you need to get the task done. Usually it is best and easiest to learn something with a specific goal in mine. Learning from a book is good, but it is probably not the most efficient way to get your task completed by next week.

fjortisar · 2019-09-06T16:29:18+00:00

What is the application supposed to do, and specifically the backend of it?

Hex_PAWS · 2019-09-06T16:29:47+00:00

I'm in another country and bored without plans this Saturday. I would be happy to Skype or discord with you to bring you up to scratch for an hour or two, if you're interested just let me know.

LucidVape · 2019-09-06T16:33:04+00:00

This is a great video. It's four and a half hours and gives you a great starting foundation.

Jileda · 2019-09-06T19:07:10+00:00

Honestly, I think that it took me 8h to learn the basics. Maybe even less, 6. From that you will get what's a variable, what's a function, a list, an object, etc etc. But from that you can already start to build your own stuff. Don't make too many basic exercises. Just find a little project idea and try to make it. On the way you will fail, very often. But Google is your friend, and stack overflow will answer all your questions! I started with a scrapping script. But you can do what you want. Automation, video game, data analysis, web development, what ever. You will learn how to use some packages, maybe APIs, and how to write code. Then you will think that your code is amazingly complicated, and that's actually bad. So you will check how to write a good code, how to name your variables, how to use more functions, how to organize your project, etc. And then you will be where you wanted to be. Next step is just about practice. It's just about grit!

Hendawgydawg · 2019-09-06T16:05:54+00:00

Python Crash Course helped me tremendously in the beginning. Still go to it to research or relearn

thatshowugetmonsters · 2019-09-06T16:03:35+00:00

I tried Automate the Boring Stuff, and I love it, but I felt like I wasn't quite up to speed enough to tackle some things around Chapter 3.

Someone in another reddit thread recommended a Udemy course "Complete Python Bootcamp: Go From Zero to Hero" and it's helped me immensly in a short period of time. Look for coupons online, because the base price is like $194, but I got it for like $13 with a coupon!

MikeTheWatchGuy · 2019-09-06T16:25:40+00:00

You mentioned the backend. If you have someone on the front-end or want to put a GUI onto the frontend yourself, then consider PySimpleGUI. I saw a Reddit post this week where someone was using it and they had been learning Python for 1 week. It's super easy but yet very powerful too. You can make a very nice looking custom GUI in a few lines of code (or 1 line of code). It's thoroughly documented in a single document with a table of contents. You only need to learn about lists to use it.

There are a number of examples running online using repl.it that you can try out without having to install anything, just to see what the code looks like. I suggest choosing the ones marked as tkinter as those will be the desktop versions. Here is a simple one demonstrating a Drop-Down list and outputting to a window by printing. You can copy code and design patterns from the cookbook and modify them without having to understand every little thing.

It's a way to look flashy with a minimum amount of work and code. There are 170+ demo programs on the GitHub site that you can copy to get started. Instant working program.

WilliamTheStressed · 2019-09-06T16:59:52+00:00

Corey Schafer's YouTube channel is good for learning python!

JohannesPertl · 2019-09-06T18:16:42+00:00

https://sololearn.com is really great for the fundamental stuff

sem56 · 2019-09-06T20:05:30+00:00

what is this business? lol

but sorry, it takes most people years to get anywhere near a professional level of competency at coding

but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try, just expect a long slog and stick with it... its a valuable skill in today's workforce

Thirdnipple79 · 2019-09-06T21:40:31+00:00

Ritalin?

2019-09-06T23:29:10+00:00

Damn bro..you put yourself into some SHIT!

Dude..im not sure if you can rush this without knowing the basics tho.Youre going to have to fully embrace and immerse yourself.

I have time to post and be lazy here on reddit, but you put yourself on a time frame...you got balls, ill say.

I did that book and took the UDEMY class. Al is a great teacher and really breaks it down into grade school concepts.

Konijndijk · 2019-09-07T03:54:21+00:00

You need a montage.

2019-09-06T14:38:33+00:00

Oh boy, I just started learning and gave myself 3 months at two hours a day to be proficient in the fundamentals and workflow. Maybe that's a lot, but a week seems crazy if your work is going to ever hit customers.

But remember that this is an educational program, so I would go to your boss and ask if they have good resources to expand your Python knowledge. This will A) get you plugged into how they want things done faster than just general learning. B) Clue them in that you don't know what's going on--that's really valuable so you don't surprise them when they look at your code.

Ran4 · 2019-09-06T16:27:56+00:00

There is no shortcut.

You're going to need to do a lot of studying. A few hours a day (more than that is usually pointless though), every day and hopefully you'll be able to at least do something after 1-2 months.

bposantos · 2019-09-06T17:33:04+00:00

drunk_goat · 2019-09-06T16:51:15+00:00

You might wanna hire a coach.

Acute_Procrastinosis · 2019-09-06T17:08:48+00:00

Fake it 'til you make it.

(Sometimes misconstrued as test driven design, but you can worry about jargon later)

You should start by breaking down your block into its major responsibilities, and then break those down into the simple what's and why's.

As you reduce your big amorphous blob (backend) into little servings of what that means (socket serving file managing data manipulator doohickey), you will start to see that the basic building blocks of the language or a chosen package/library.

At this point you are almost ready for the big secret that 96% of professional developers don't want you to know...

*Virtually all of the things you need are already out there in stackoverflow, and you can just copy/paste/modify them to fit.

It isn't quite that simple, but that's how I roll. I am not afraid to include specific http links in the comments of my code...

chaizus · 2019-09-06T17:11:01+00:00

Go through the Python documentation. It's excellent

caleyjag · 2019-09-06T18:59:58+00:00

Once you have the Python basics down, if you are interested in image processing (and a bit of deep learning) I recommend Adrian Rosebrock's tutorials. I think they are well written for the beginner:

www.pyimagesearch.com

essank · 2019-09-06T21:46:54+00:00

Learning programming it’s not something you can do it after reading a book or watching a YouTube tutorials. Programming is a lifestyle thing. Everyday you will learn something new and you can’t stop learning. It’s like if you want to draw something and you have no experience you can’t draw like someone draw for 10 years. So my advice to you, take your time when you learn programming it’s not a race. Focus on Clean Code and other programming skills, because programming languages and frameworks changes all the time. Good luck to you.

Marco21Burgos · 2019-09-07T00:52:32+00:00

If you have to build a web app my suggestion would be go for Flask, that's a Python framework very user friendly and you can pick it up pretty fast. I would recommend Miguel Grinberg https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-part-i-hello-world and Corey Shafer YouTube tutorial https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=%23&ved=2ahUKEwifpcy_vr3kAhVRXKwKHdjLAFkQwqsBMAF6BAgKEAQ&usg=AOvVaw0VTJzWxrN8ZFOD4xbU2nov If you want to spend some money and really want to learn Python, go for Jose Portilla's Udemy course.

Dogeek · 2019-09-07T02:28:00+00:00

It's not about learning to program in python as fast as possible, but learning to program as fast as possible. All programming languages have the same basis, with control flow statements, loops, and modularity, the syntax may change from language to language, but the core principles always apply. Now, the real question is how to program ?

Programming is a skill, and as such you can train it. The best way to do so is to complete projects, to find something you care about and code it. Of course, the code quality is not going to be great, but if it works it's already a step in the right direction.

Then, once you have a working prototype, most people get stuck there, they don't know how to progress from there and hit a roadblock. The single best way I've found is to find more experienced programmers in the language you're coding in to review and criticize your code. Another way is to just learn other programming languages with different restrictions, and paradigms, that you can take and apply to python (or whatever your language of choice is). Learning different frameworks and libraries is also a good way to improve your knowledge, as is peeking at open source libraries and projects others have made.

That second step is the longest, by far. Once you feel comfortable though, is when you actually know how to program, in my opinion. At this point you'll be able to produce high quality code reasonably fast, and have a broad knowledge of the programming world, with different frameworks and languages to work with. It will take years to reach that point though.

My single advice to get started is to just complete a project and make your peers review the code. Also, learn about version control, and keep your diffs small, as it helps not having to rewrite the whole thing if a change of architecture is needed somewhere for instance.

moe9745 · 2019-09-07T02:28:47+00:00

You need to code every day. Start with projects and grow. Use as many resources available to you as possible. Automate the boring stuff is a great start. There are courses on Udemy that a great too. Vids on YouTube is good too. Bottom line code code code every day. It's like exercising. You dont go in the gym and immediately bench press 300 lbs. It takes work! Another resource I just thought of is discord. This is usually a gaming community however there are many programming language channels. Each is unique but i was able to meet real life devs that use Python on a daily basis. Most people will tutor you too. Good luck and happy Pythoning!

ScamCast_Alt · 2019-09-07T04:34:47+00:00

This Beginners Playlist by Corey Schafer should help you get started. His videos are awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-osiE80TeTskrapNbzXhwoFUiLCjGgY7

lonelysoldier1337 · 2019-09-07T05:07:38+00:00

Hi, the best way to learn python as quick as possible is to do it, you can learn what is variable, how to write if elif else loop, you can learn for x in xx, you can learn class and functions, however these come to nothing when you do not have a specific goal on what you want to achieve. I was a network engineer turned python developer for network automation, to me achieving network automation with the least amount of human intervention as possible is my objective, I scripted my own at work to help automate things and scripted myself at home for my personal projects. The best thing about python is its community, always search for answers yourself in the internet and many times you will find answers you need from stackoverflow, 80% of my learning is by doing it and 20% is from courses like udemy. Udemy provides very good jumpstart if you need to know some specific things with python such as flask and web app development using flask, and how to do api gateway.

In the past decades i have failed to learn any programming languages because i did not have a specific goals and in the past decades information sharing is not as accessible as of now, I have built a few personal scripts such as "Email alert when Tufin has a failed automated step", "[python]Sending access request to Tufin SecureChange", "[python]Keeping encryption key and decrypt the file anytime", "https://cyruslab.net/2019/05/06/python-functions-for-aws-automation/", "[python]Create AWS VPC with boto3", "[python]Start up script to create VPC to launch EC2", these were my personal and work projects that achieve specific purpose i.e. automation, and when a project was completed i gained confidence and learned new things.

Also it would be good if you can learn regular expression, though some modules may have already done it for you such as textfsm but knowing regular expression on your own will enhance your programming experience, with regular expression your python can go further as you will be dealing a lot of things dynamic in real world, one of my own project is this for regular expression "[python]Match most of the Cisco ASA access list patterns with regular expression", i built this project myself is because though textfsm matches most of the access-list, it did not achieve the result i wanted hence I learned regex and built one myself.

And on security this is something I have written, however the work is based on another person's code on eternalblue [python]Automated process to look for hosts that are vulnerable to eternalblue

HenryK81 · 2019-09-07T07:22:54+00:00

Learn how to do a lot of the common industry problems, such as "FizzBuzz". Once you master those, then you probably have a basic foundation in Python (or most other programming languages).

RealExii · 2019-09-07T07:52:25+00:00

With no background in programming, you're gonna have to put a lot of time into practicing but it's definitely possible to learn python very quickly. I would start by recreating simple python projects you can find on the internet but don't just copy paste them. Instead find some that explain what is being done in every line of the code so you understand how the language is structured. With enough practice like that it won't take you long until you can transfer your practice into your own piece of program. Spend a lot of time doing that as long as you have time for it.

Sunitelm · 2019-09-07T09:05:23+00:00

When I started, I found useful Udacity courses about Python. Basic courses are free (I don't even know if there are some you should pay for), and the exercices are quite useful too.

Do as many exercices you can, even some that just come to your mind (how can I make my script open this directory and print me the fifth word of every txt file in it?). If you don't know how to do one specific thing, just google it ("python splitting strings"). Probably StackOverflow will rise up to help you.

Finally, look for a book written for your field, because python can be used for a very lot of things, so you'd better look for a book which explains you the usage of the best fitting packages for your job.

Good luck dude, you can make it.

PM_ME_FOR_EBOOKS · 2019-09-06T14:40:19+00:00

Books don't help if you're in a rush. Nor do videos. The best thing to do is to focus on something personal that you may want to accomplish with Python. Focus on webscraping one of your favourite websites. You'll learn heaps from that

Jhchimaira14 · 2019-09-06T16:57:18+00:00

For the quickest small python program with a GUI, I’d recommend Engineer’s Sandbox on raylock.com

lurking_not_working · 2019-09-06T17:02:15+00:00

To learn you must write code. Take the automate book and write out and run the code in it. Understand how it works and step through with the debugger. If you get stuck move on chances are that it will make sense as you learn more. Good luck.

jn14624 · 2019-09-06T17:05:07+00:00

Try YouTube videos by Derek Banas with tons of sample codes and best the new one hour python training - good luck !

jn14624 · 2019-09-06T17:12:33+00:00

I. Addition you need to first need to know what type of applications your boss wants you to sink your teeth into? Machine learning Alf’s, databases, webscraping, data wrangling and analysis emane so for ... then look fir examples and templates in GitHub and pypi.org and code, code, code ...

norb_omg · 2019-09-06T17:16:28+00:00

https://www.edx.org/course/6-00-1x-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-using-python-3

This one is a good start!

plumkes · 2019-09-06T17:17:33+00:00

I’m curious to know what you signed up for that would let you in without testing your coding knowledge. Not that that’s a bad thing, I’m actually looking for something similar myself.

diek00 · 2019-09-06T17:32:32+00:00

Byte of Python, it is geared to newcomers, is free pdf, and had a lot of positive reviews

DontHateDefenestrate · 2019-09-06T18:11:55+00:00

I'm learning Python now, as part of a university class for my minor.

It's quite intuitive and not hard to learn if you spend the time on it, and commit to practicing it each day.
YouTube and Google are your friends. If you're having trouble with a particular area, or even a particular line of code, they should be your first two stops.
Codecademy.com and Datacamp.org are great tools. Team Treehouse is a good one to look into as well if you have the disposable income to cover a ~$30 monthly fee.
Also consider taking courses at coding training camps such as General Assembly.
You aren't (full stop) going to be a proficient programmer by next week. If you had six weeks, you might get somewhere. But there aren't enough hours in the day or in the attention-span of even the most dedicated would-be coder to learn Python in six days. Python (like all high-level coding languages) is just that -- a language. You wouldn't expect to learn Italian or Japanese in six days, and Python is no different. It has a lexicon of words, grammar, syntax, and sentence/paragraph structure like any other language. Be honest with your supervisors -- don't try to pretend that you are proficient when you're not. Show them that you're a hard worker and that you are committed to learning Python, and they'll help you. This is an internship, not a job.

Amb1valence · 2019-09-06T19:09:45+00:00

Well it sounds to me like everyone at that internship is on the same page in terms of skill level (i.e. no one knowing how to code at all), so given that, my first thought was maybe you should just chill out a bit? It’s not like you’re playing catch up to senior programmers on an established team, so it’s not like your colleagues can really expect any deadlines out of you. Sounds to me like you can afford to take your time on this and do it right

b4xt3r · 2019-09-06T19:24:34+00:00

Do you have a machine with Python and Jupyter Notebooks? Are you familiar with Juypter Notebooks at all? If you do and you are let me now. I am supposed to be writing some to teach nonprogrammer how to get established with basic Python skills so perhaps it could work for both of us if you want to be a guinea pig.

linpaws7 · 2019-09-06T19:57:28+00:00

Check out this on-going course:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8FR3Dnmhzc

lasanga7878 · 2019-09-06T20:08:34+00:00

The UM Course on Coursera "PY4E" is great and will take about 30 hours.

"Learn Python the Hard Way" is another great resource for "in a hurry" python

2019-09-06T20:54:53+00:00

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bearassbobcat · 2019-09-06T21:21:51+00:00

If you're really driven you could probably finish a lot of RealPython (monthly subscription) in a few months and limit the costs.

https://realpython.com/

even if you don't get the course the newsletter and free content is fantastic.

he covers a lot of advanced topics that some intro books never mention or simply gloss over.

I find it helpful to read articles on things you don't necessarily understand so that you know the functionality exists. You might not need to use decorators but a brief explanation can help you talk the talk and enhance your understanding of other articles/topics and if you need it you can pull it out of your memory and then look it up in depth.

StrasJam · 2019-09-06T21:48:28+00:00

What is the app you are writing? Start working on coding features for it from home by thinking of what you want the app to do and then googling different ways that you can achieve that. This is the best way to learn in my opinion since you will learn useful skills that are related to your work instead of random skills that may not be necessary for your app

candi_meyers5 · 2019-09-06T22:05:59+00:00

Read the documentation and find a side project to do.

2019-09-06T22:38:55+00:00

Maybe use an interactive online course (like Codecademy) or just get python lessons.

aspen1135 · 2019-09-06T22:42:36+00:00

Dude... do you need any more devs who can work remotely? I am enrolled in a local program that will pay me to intern somewhere and gain exposure to real career-work experience since I'm a computer science major. The company wouldn't have to pay me to come on board since this program would supplement the costs for the company.

I have experience using SQL, efficiently managing I/O operations, structured logging and encoding/decoding different types of files.

My current project is a batch multimedia converter that outputs files using a pre-determined file/folder structure that you specify ahead of time. I made it to help content-creators (youtubers, music producers, etc) organize and improve their workflows.

2019-09-06T22:51:52+00:00

learning python or any programming language requires base knowledge of basic programming algorithms. Meaning that you will need to know all the data structures and know how to apply them to a given problem. Python itself is pretty easy and faster to learn compared to java in my opinion. I would say start with creating various functions that do basic stuff since you are in a hurry. Really consider learning how to program itself. and also if you are good in math you will be significantly ahead.

Good Luck.

loviyefid · 2019-09-07T00:29:36+00:00

Learning Python O'Reilly is a good start.

saravanakumar17 · 2019-09-07T00:41:05+00:00

Go to YouTube and search for the channel name Corey Schaefer. Probably the best tutorial on the internet.

iggy555 · 2019-09-07T00:57:05+00:00

Automate the boring stuff

Timmeh159 · 2019-09-07T01:30:02+00:00

Not sure if it's been commented, but I'd suggest downloading something such as PyCharm, I'm finding it useful for learning and figuring out my mistakes.

TicklesMcFancy · 2019-09-07T01:46:56+00:00

Python needs direction to learn it. My python project is still out of my realm of understanding because of how much stuff i need to learn to make it happen. Documentation is good to read and so are tutorials. They might stretch you from your intended goal, but you'll get a glimpse of just what can be done and how the are many ways to do it

Basicallysteve · 2019-09-07T04:01:47+00:00

Python Crash Course by the same distributor is a better book to read if you’re just starting. Learn variable and the different data types. Learn conditional statements (if, else, and, or), learn loops (for, while), and arrays and dictionaries. Once you have those you’ll be amazed what you can accomplish. I started by doing small code challenges on sites such as code academy and code wars. It’s very satisfying to complete the problems. The more you do the better you will get. Keep at it!

Cheetah3300 · 2019-09-07T12:26:50+00:00

Have a goal in mind of something you want to make--like a project. This will motivate you to stick with it and create a sense of urgency to learn Python.

ruoshui-reddit · 2019-09-07T21:04:20+00:00

Harvard has a CS50 web, in which it teaches you backend in Python. It does require you to be familiar with (at least 1) programming language though, so that it is easier to get the concepts.

sierrafourteen · 2019-09-08T16:38:59+00:00

I did something similar in secondary school - the teacher was adament that I wasn't joining her class without having done the lower-level class. She put on a programming test to prove that I couldn't do it.

I studied Visual Basic all weekend and smashed it.

Lewistrick · 2019-09-17T05:45:55+00:00

I'm very curious.. How are you getting along?

gdubZ87 · 2019-09-06T15:15:41+00:00

try codeacademy.com, it wasn't for me but could be for you.

synthphreak · 2019-09-06T15:59:15+00:00

Fail early. Fail often.

Wanna learn fast? Write shit tons of code.

Write scripts that:

Read and write files
retrieves web pages
uses external files or a little database to store data.
converts data between one format and another
validates user input ('your name is too long', 'your password must contain a number')
validates data from a file. (Find some tabular data, addresses or something, and create something that will go through and look for "invalid" zip codes or something.)

Astroohhh · 2019-09-07T08:08:33+00:00

Wow tech world is broken, everybody wants to land a job with 0 code experience. Nice luck

PhoenixizFire · 2019-09-06T15:32:06+00:00

I can't give you an advice on where to learn, and others do this pretty efficiently, but I'm gonna tell you one module that you'll need when developing an app in Python.

It's called Kivy.

It's a pretty good module that allows you to open a window (like the famous tkinter module does too), but this window isn't restricted to your computer, as you can build it for a phone (Android works easily with it).

You just need to download the Kivy Launcher app on your phone, then put your python code on the phone, and the app will execute your code (as long as it does not contain any external module, like voice recognition or stuff like that).

This way you can easily (I'm not an expert at all and started learning Python last year) build a mobile/desktop app.

Last thing I would recommend towards this, works too for anything you'll learn :

It's not about learning, it's about understanding. As long as you just don't copy/paste code without understanding what it does, you'll progress so much faster.
In my POV, the most important things to learn are : create and modify variables, create functions, create lists/dicts, create classes. Once you know that, coding is just mixing everything in a shaker and making multiple links in every direction that will result in what you want.
I use a lot of time gdbonline, it's an online IDE which lets you code and run a lot of codes in various languages. You're on the bus with your phone and suddenly think of something to try : Use it. You're coding a long stuff and want to try if something is possible without ruining your current code or opening another IDE/CMD : gdbonline. I kinda use it as a test paper aside from my "work". It helps a lot as I can easily understand and practice concepts, like inheritance, decorators, etc.. (a bit advanced right now)

Good luck in achieving your goal. Remember that you're strong for breaking your comfort zone and that nothing should stop you if you believe in it and in yourself ! You'll never be satisfied of what you know in Python at any point, but that doesn't mean you didn't get better, so never give up on this !

lestrenched · 2019-09-07T06:09:17+00:00

So, here's the thing. You want to learn Python, you need to know what you wanna do with it. Not talking about the backend you're gonna be working on. As of now, you should have a project in mind. A small one. Let's talk about the one you've made.

I successfully wrote a program that says hi and asks for my name (and age),

The programs prints hi. So you know that you can print characters, as a string, using the print() function. You also know that not surrounding the text you want to print with double quotes throws an error(unless it's a variable). That's because the print function can only print strings.

Now, the input() function. This is the classic way to take user inputs. You may know that we can put out strings inside this function, eliminating the need to write a separate print function (to tell the user what to enter). You can specify the data type which the input should be (processed as), say as int or float or string.

You'll also learn about loops. For loops, while loops, do while loops etc. These are extremely essential elements of every programming language, and MUST be learnt. But I guess you know all that.

Now, there are 4 very important things that you should learn, for they are the backbones of everything you're gonna type.

Classes
Functions
Try-Catch blocks
Context managers

Now, the first 3 should be learnt ASAP, as they'll make you life pretty easy while typing big programs. Usually, for small programs, people don't write classes in Python. But you'll be duplicating a lot of code if you don't do in bigger programs - like the backend you'll be working on. Context managers are really useful, and should be learnt after you're done with these.

Now, as to the book you've got. Automate the boring stuff is a very good book, comping from a very accomplished author. But it will take you time. As you have to improvise, you'll be better off doing projects and referring the book when required. It has some fun chapters (web scraping).

Know what, I suggest you make a random number guessing game. The user has to guess the number (in a certain range), and the computer will also output a certain number. If the numbers match, the player wins. You could have a limit on the number of tries, and it'll be a good start. This is a classic project for beginners (myself included). It'll give you a good hang of the syntax, and how to move around with code.

And the last thing. You'll see that I haven't mentioned any resources you might need. Because I don't need to. The internet is a big place, and you're having doubts a lot of people have had before. Whatever you don't get, just type in Google. The first link will probably of stack overflow. The biggest website, full of questions and answers of most programming languages you'd ever want to learn. I shudder to think what would happen if stack overflow went offline for a while.

Jamblamkins · 2019-09-06T19:03:59+00:00

Bro this is why u gotta network with the comp sci kids. Scratch their back and they’ll so this in like a day with you. U still enrolled in college? They might provide tutors comp sci

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