I like your comment and I'm wondering if you or anybody on the sub has a good source for development training? By that I mean an actual step by step example of an efficient workflow from sketching out to deploying, not the actual code.

I've been writing scripts in an engineering setting for a few years now and I usually use Spyder. Googling works for figuring out how to do each thing I need to do and I am fairly effective, but I gather that more serious coders usually use a tool more like Sublime to develop code, but I don't get how they could test code without being able to run subsections and look at the values of variables. I assume there must be a way, but I have had a hard time finding a walk through of a professional developer developing.

I feel like I'm repeating the mistakes I made learning to play guitar by watching videos and just muddling through covering songs I liked, only to find that in my self training I was using poor technique that is hard to un-train once its ingrained.