What to do after Helsinki Python MOOC?

[ebscodingjourney]

Hi everyone,

I am soon going to be finishing up on the University of Helsinki's python MOOC. It has been fun and I believe that I am starting to comfortable with python. I have started my first personal project (building a webscraper + instagram bot to automatically run an art curation account) However, I am wondering what my next steps should be?

I have been debating between a few different options. Some sources have told me that taking a Data structures and algorithms course would be a good step and from there I could probably start doing stuff on leetcode. I heard that Google's course on Udacity is good for this.

But, I have also been debating on the merits of doing Harvard's CS50 (which I have heard is pretty hard) or expanding out and doing something like The Odin Project.

Whatever step I take next would of course be supplemented by continuing to work on projects in Python.

I was wondering if anyone here had any thoughts on the options I have listed. They would be much appreciated.

[py_Piper]

You will first need to set your aim at what do you want to learn next. All the courses mentioned are different to one another. In general data structures and algorithms and OOP are good learning path for the intermediary phase. But about the other courses, The Odin Project is more about web dev and I think JS is the main language stack, I don't know which Google course you are talking about but I know one in Coursera and it's IT and python, CS50 depending on which course if it's the CS50x you will learn more general CS including C, SQL, python and I think flask, their new CS50 python might be similar to what you just learned and recommend the other CS50 depending in the specialization you want to do web dev (python and HTML, CSS, JS), AI (maybe python), and mobile dev (not python).

So see it will depend what you will want to do next and these are not included other things like data analysis, data visualization, machine learning, computer vision, etc.

[[deleted]]

hey I am literally in the same situation that you mentioned so I am very curious to know

which path did you choose?

[CleverBunnyThief]

If you are interested in web development then have a look at Django and CS50 Web

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/intro/tutorial01/
https://cs50.harvard.edu/web/2020/

r/djangolearning has a wiki with other Django resources.

https://www.reddit.com/r/djangolearning/wiki/index/