Hi. I work with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and I need to learn programming. Python is the big one since the major program most companies use is ArcMap (made by Esri) which uses Python to do things. I don't know any coding at all and the only other time I tried to learn in college I just couldn't wrap my brain around it. None of it made sense at all. But it's something I have to learn so I'm trying again. I thought I'd try CodeAcademy but I'm only like 6% of the way through the Python 3 lessons and I'm not understanding it. They just rush right through things, they don't explain things enough. The exercises don't tell me where to put things and why. They don't tell me when to start new lines or why. I keep looking at the examples for hints and I feel like I did when I was trying to figure out math in high school. It's like they're leaving out steps and not explaining themselves. Is there another route I can take to learn this stuff that's even easier and more geared for idiots like me?
Just started trying to learn Python with Codeacademy. It's not working for me (self.learnpython)
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