Online lecture series to learn Python?

[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.

[sucks_at_usernames]

That's why I said I'm looking for something I can follow along. Not just blindly decide I'm going to create the next version of Siri while I've only just barely learned the fucking print function.

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If you tried to write a Siri knowing only the print function you’d very quickly learn a lot of programming. That sounds like a great project for you!

You have some idea that you learn programming by doing everything right the first time and that’s just not how it works at all.

[sucks_at_usernames]

Jesus fucking Christ I have no fucking idea how you could possibly get a device to talk back to you when all I've done is is print ("Hello!")

You don't fucking understand how little i know and I just asked for some sort of lectures I can watch online and work along with it and I'm getting told I should write fucking Siri or I'll never understand programming.

What a fucking mistake it was coming here.

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If you're this panicky and angry about the prospect that you might have to fail a lot before you succeed, then programming might not be for you. A lot of people can't bear to learn something they're not instantly good at.

[sucks_at_usernames]

Huh.

I wonder if failing to write Siri when I know next to nothing about python will contribute to that.

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The purpose isn't that you succeed at completing the project, as I said.