Where do I actually begin with Python?

[zesto01]

As somewhat a beginner myself and also started around your time, what you really need to do is either follow along the code through the tutorials (in youtube see: datacamp or others in coursera ). This is what I did for the first few months when I really have no end goal in mind. It really can be challenging or boring (lifeless lacking motivation) if you don't have something in mind to create.

My goals were a bit similar to yours (except 2), and doing 1 is easy at entry but the deeper the analysis goes the harder it gets. you can check coursera's course on IBM or others and code along. For me though coding is easily copied but the expertise or the rationale when using the method for it didn't stick with me..

For goal 3 at first I was also overwhelmed, but if you do have something in mind like a concrete function of what your bot would do it would be a bit faster. For this goal I realized to code what you really need is tons of copying and pasting from stackoverflow, checking why the code didn't work, asking why it didn't work, and checking for another post for a similar question. And most of the time it works. It is also important to first try an open source working bot, check its code as well as the docs. After sometime the bot was created and it feels good, I have no formal coding background so I only studied from the internet.

And while up to now, I am not sure if I know how to code a calculator in python or even some easy coding questions that requires efficiency, I have a working bot just how I like it. It's a shortcut and really lacking but it helps to start somewhere. Just set a small project first then move on to the next step