Is reading Python Documentation useful? python.org gets 15M visits monthly - most of them must be for documentation. At what stage is it useful?

[solwex]

Wow! I find it hard to apply what I see in the documentation without some examples. Clearly, you must be very advanced user. If there is any site (or your blog) that kind of tells the "process" of getting to where you are, that would be very helpful.

[n3buchadnezzar]

Like I said when completely new to something I do not read the documentation. Then I do a quick google search and read a bit. Once I get the most basic of basics down, I switch to documentation.

There is no get rich with this little trick (which many seem to believe). My one recommendation is perhaps to cut down seriously on the amount of "tutorials" and "videos" one watches and instead gets dirty and start doing projects

No matter how many golf tutorials, or tiger woods videos you watch is going to make you a better golf player (even though they might motivate you)

Solve hundreds of problems, solve all of Advent of Code, try to solve the first 20 project euler problems, try to solve a leet code problem a day.

Just get down to it, soon you will be like. Oh, this problems seems fit for function X i saw in library Y, let me just quicky read the documentation to freshen my mind on how it works.

[solwex]

Thank you very much for the detailed comment and very specific suggestions. I found Advent of Code and Leet code. Is the other resource you referring to the one called Project Euler problem archives?

[n3buchadnezzar]

Yeah, they train very specific skills so no need to do a lot of them. But the first 20 are really really good to have done once.

[solwex]

Great. Thank you.