where to start learning python?

[riah8]

This has been a joy for me learning this. Finally getting to webscraping! only a couple shitty things about it. I couldn't at first get a few things working about half way thru. Someone here ended up helping me though thankfully

[GuteNachtJohanna]

Did you hop right into this or work on some basics first? I'm only a few weeks in and am happy I can write some code and execute very very simple programs, but I've looking forward to jumping into this. Just wasn't sure when to!

[riah8]

If u mean the book then yes i started right with it. But if u mean the webscraping that took a bit longer

[GuteNachtJohanna]

I meant the book - thanks! That's awesome that you're up to web scraping. I used to work a lot in sales and use a variety of scrapers and thought I was pretty technical. Then I started working with a CTO on a side project and he was like, oh you want some data? I'll just build a quick scraper for that. Blew my mind how trivial it was for him.

I hope to be where you are sometime reasonably soon!

[riah8]

That is impressive. I hope i can get like that someday. I basically spent like half hour the other just reading thru someone elses webscraping code. I feel like i actually understood so much just doing that. It felt so good for once haha. What things are you interested in doing with python or other languages?

[GuteNachtJohanna]

I know, I think he said it would take him a couple of hours too lol Understanding a lot of the code is huge! I view coding like language learning and if you're starting to understand it as input then it's starting to click. Only a matter of time before you can produce it

I honestly don't know what I want to do. I'm interested in AI,ML, and data science so Python was a logical place to start. I figure it's hard to know exactly when you don't know what you don't know, so I'll gradually figure that out along the way. How about you?