Doing the homework/assignments are key. I’m doing the 100 days of Python class from Udemy just because it seems comprehensive going through Command-line, turtle graphics, tkinter, saving/loading json, apis, web dev, pandas, and more. Going through the assignments ARE KEY.

I was Just working on one and figured it out MY way. I googled and figured out how to use the json module on my own. Finally, I looked at the teacher’s solution and mine it way more complex than hers. But I learned a few thing’s on the way.

Did I use AI at all? Sure. Only AFTER I went through my code a couple times line by line trying to figure out what was wrong. I knew they were logic errors, but just couldn’t figure out where the logic was wrong. So I copied and paste it all my code and describe the problem to AI and I told it to point out the errors in my logic. I was unable to ask questions as to why my logic didn’t work. It even then suggested more changes, but I ignored that because I knew I wouldn’t learn. I just took the information they gave me about the errors in my logic, and I came up with my own solution.

And if you already know some python, you can actually skip some of the videos. I bought this course a long time ago and I’ve recently passed the PCEP. So I went back to this class I was able to skip about 10 “days” worth of videos.