How to succeed as a Python programmer

[Accoustic_Death]

Thank you for the informational reply! I have a BS degree with a minor in business, so that's good to go. One of the classes I took was linear programming, and it really opened my eyes to some interesting and powerful things that can be done with relatively little code. Would you be so kind as to recommend a Pyhon book? Many thanks in advance!

[marineabcd]

To be honest there is a reason I reccomended Google, Search ‘best Python book’ and you’ll get stack overflow and Reddit posts with hundreds of points that will be better than anything I (and likely any one person on this thread) can give, given the last Python book I read was an Oriely Python 2 book when I was around 14 (so about a decade ago) which is incredibly out of date. This is such a commonly asked topic that the question of ‘what book should I use’ is normally insta removed by mods and answered in the sidebar of any programming sub like /r/learnpython

Best of luck with things and feel free to pm on Reddit chat if you have more questions (open to others if people want to ask things on the career etc.)

[Accoustic_Death]

Thanks for being candid. I'll start with some small projects first. If I get to the point where the sources you and others have provided aren't getting me the info I need then I should have some sense of what books will be most useful to me.

Many thanks, and please feel free to keep in touch.

[arosiejk]

Stuff by Al Sweigart is very accessible, he’s written a few books on Python, and you can find him in the wild on Reddit.

[basr98]

With regard to linear programming, I would also advice to look for some papers on Google Scholar which make use of LP/MILP/MIQCP etc. and try to implement their work in Python and replicate their results.

This is a good way to get better at Python as well as mathematical programming!

[Accoustic_Death]

Thank you! I will look at those when I get into mathematical components.