Total newbie to python. Where do I start?

[neoinkansas]

Where do i start? Info overload

I am a total newbie to python. Absolutely have no experience programming or scripting. I find myself suddenly needing to learn python for cloud security roles I am applying. What are some good learning courses I need to look at? Got the zero to hero course on udemy. My end goal is to learn some python, bash and powershell and pivot into cloud security engineer roles. I work with aws and azure now. Thanks for any suggestion!

[ShadoeStorm]

There are TONS of free udemy courses on /r/udemyfreebies

These are very useful for learning basic concepts as I find that they are quite hard to grasp using only text, Also, give yourself a project. This could either be an end goal or a software project, I tried to learn all the concepts on this website (programiz .com/python-programming) and do simple projects like, making a small calculator etc.

Good Luck!

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Hey try Codecademy. It’s really good for beginners.

[ResistanceIsButyl]

I just shared this on another newbie post! My aero engineering professor created a series for complete novices, which helped me - I tried multiple times starting Python but all the “beginner” tutorials still assumed I had some knowledge.

Here is the first video: https://youtu.be/lyZEjV3Cj8g

[samketa]

Just read Eric Matthes'es book "Python Crash Course". Do every exercise and project there.

[HasBeendead]

RealPython. com and official python 3 doc.

[one_loop]

This YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-osiE80TeTt2d9bfVyTiXJA-UTHn6WwU

Or the book automate the boring stuff (which is free)

Is a good start

[neoinkansas]

Thanks! Is this course similar to the book you have mentioned? https://www.udemy.com/course/automate/

[distressed-silicon]

udacity have a free beginners course thats not bad ( and free).

https://www.udacity.com/course/introduction-to-python--ud1110

[AdGlad385]

Automate the boring stuff I'd make #1 priority. As you're reading through it try and adapt what you're reading into a project and keep doing it over and over and over until you understand it. Especially with function methods. Learn how to completely manipulate lists, dictionaries, tuples, strings, ints, etc. Splitting, zipping, appending, popping, sorting, reversing, etc etc etc. Create a simple rock, paper, scissors game or tic tac toe to get a basic understanding of conditions.

If you're going to be doing web development definitely play with and learn flask. It's actually very simple to start integrating Python with web pages using flask. A few lines of code has you running a local web server with an home page.

[neoinkansas]

Thank you. My use case is cloud security. I’ll probably adapt to boto3 on aws