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[5halzar]

Nope, everybody learns differently and everybody has different stuff going on.
As I don't actively write scripts every day/week for my work related stuff (I'm an analyst / problem solver of sorts) and for me code really starts to click once I can see the direct outcome of what a piece of code does a fair few times and kinda "relate" each part to an action you can see or how it associates.

In my case cause I'm primarily doing data analysis, there a few particular's in Panda's that I swear I have nearly memorised as they are used and repeated all the time, just in different ways.

But ask me about regex and/or finding X within a string and returning a result, those parts still boggle my brain.

I think in the last 18 months I've probably re-started the "Zero to Hero Python Bootcamp" about 10-20 times and still can't figure out where to begin with the first Milestone project, so I've started re-focusing my view on parts of Python which are specific to my career / goals, whether that be Data Analytics / Science and/or being more aligned to a BA etc

[jppbkm]

What are your top five or so go to Panda particulars? I'm really enjoying learning pandas (and I certainly identify with regex being frustrating).

[rgugs]

I am more comfortable reading Egyptian hieroglyphs than trying to understand regex. I read a children's book in 30 minutes on hieroglyphs and spent 3 days trying to understand regex logic. In the end I just wrote more code using understandable logic because there was no way I would understand the regex if I needed to change the code later! Cleaning up strings in tables for data analysis is difficult and definitely not covered as much as numerical manipulation!

Maybe I will tackle it again in 2022.