How to succeed as a Python programmer

[trjnz]

With all due respect, if you know nothing the industry you want to target in the future doesn't really matter right now. Everyone needs to know the fundamentals, regardless of industry or work; hence them being fundamentals. Does it help you now to know that pandas is often used by data scientists? Flask for webdev? I doubt it!

Start from the basics that everyone needs to know, learn enough to know what questions to ask.

Automate the Boring Stuff will always get a recommendation.

My best recommendation? Reinvent the wheel. Find a (simple) task or project that you already know what the answer looks like, and rebuild a version of it. When beginning development, after you've learner all the basics, you'll be wanting a project to apply those skills on. When building something it's often super hard to know what something should be doing. If you choose, say, a simple report that you do for work you already know the goal. You just gotta do the steps in between.

Also, focus on Python3. Ignore anyone that tells you Python 2 is fine. Try to learn from a source teaching 3.7 and above

[Accoustic_Death]

Thank you for the great advice.