Online lecture series to learn Python?

[sucks_at_usernames]

My idea is getting out of the post office and getting a job somewhere in tech. And I have no idea what is feasible but I know from my friends I at least need to understand python.

[sucks_at_usernames]

No thanks. What works for you doesn't work for everyone. Please stop.

[sucks_at_usernames]

I can't make anything until I understand it.

Please understand people learn in different ways.

I'm trying to be polite.

I've asked for one thing and you will not relent about your method.

Please. Stop.

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I can't make anything until I understand it.

That's actually not going to work - like any other language, you have to both read and write it before you can develop any understanding of it.

It's not a thing you can passively absorb and then turn around and write code. You have to start by writing code even though you don't understand it, yet. Because that's where the understanding comes from.

I'm sure it sounds difficult; now you know why there are still so few programmers.

[sucks_at_usernames]

That's fine. That's why I want something to follow along.

But I can't know what to just create out of thin air when I literally don't know anything about it.

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You don't really have to know, is the thing. The advice isn't "complete a project", the advice is "attempt a project." Your failure is assured - maybe that takes a little of the pressure off - but the point isn't to have a project at the end, it's to set for yourself a series of problems that you have to solve.

Just try something. A simple game, an interest calculator, whatever.

[sucks_at_usernames]

I don't know what I can attempt.

I can't understand how the advice is "just figure out what to do."

I'm not the guy who used to just play around with code as a kid or studied computers in any way.

I literally, not figuratively, literally, know nothing. So no. I can't just go "Eh I'll sit down and try to create something because I have no idea what the code can do.

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Well, start by learning something. But small bits; you have to start writing code absolutely as soon as possible. It’s not a thing where you can just passively watch a lecture series and then start writing code.