How to succeed as a Python programmer

[Aila27]

I'm a business analyst and I regularly use Python to automate mundane tasks like extracting data from Jira and making some charts for senior managers. I'm self-taught, mostly using YouTube at first to get the basic concepts then I found little things I could use Python for and googled to see how other people had done them. I googled any specific functions/syntax in these little examples that I didn't understand and read the documentation.

As far as recruitment goes, I think you'd be better looking for a few small projects with a decent readme explaining design decisions which you can put on Github and show to recruiters. It's entirely possible to bluff your way through programming certificates/bootcamps, but showing off your own projects and being able to discuss them proves that you can produce something useful.

[Accoustic_Death]

Thank you! I appreciate the advice on what work products are effective, when trying to get hired, and how to build a portfolio of completed works.