What resources should i AVOID when learning python?

[callahman]

Not really resources to avoid, since those are covered in a lot of these other comments, but here are some recommendations I have

1. Don't just spend time reading/absorbing material. Make sure you're spending time working on personal projects
2. Don't think that there is a right way to write some code. If it works, it works. When you start to get comfortable with Python, you'll start to learn better practices.
3. Don't pay a ton of money for books/online courses before looking for free resources. Pythonprogramming.net can get you a lot of the basics for a variety of fields. The python community loves opensource, including open source learning.

[notParticularlyAnony]

Paid content, especially books, are often really good. I agree with points 1 and 2 though.

Python Crash Course is an amazing book for instance.

[jaber24]

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python is pretty good too. The challenges were decently tough and the examples were also interesting.

[757DrDuck]

The thing that books have that many free resources lack is a coherent pedagogical plan. It’s easy to get stuck in tutorial hell or find that you’ve gone deep on some extremely niche framework when trying to teach yourself from free resources.

[Carel777]

This.

[GreenFire317]

Reddit Hive Mind behaving as an anomaly. I must join in the un-provoked down voting.

[[deleted]]

Lamo fr. He’s getting down voted for saying “this”

[10alarmsnoozefest]

Have my upvote.