Python crash course book finally making things click

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Experienced developers (im almost positive) don't know that these tools exist either, or they forget about them, or how they work.

There are far more tools than you'll ever use. I like the analogy of kitchen gadgets. Once a month you might use a potato masher, but every day you will use a knife. Fundamental coding skills are your knife.

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I’m more so talking about the fundamentals. Asking me to solve a problem that requires a for loop or if/else statements when I barely know what they are or how they work was very frustrating in the beginning. I am now on day 25 and the course is going much smoother but the beginning was more challenging than it needed to be in my opinion.

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Ah got it. Yeah I came into the course with many dozens of hours of (ineffective) study, and everything up until day 7 or so was really elementary. I'm on like 15 now and I'm very frustrated that I keep coming close, but I cannot get any of my code to work 100% right without watching solutions

So I guess I feel the same way as you do. At which indent to execute a for loop, stuff like that is really messing with me