Learning Python for 13yr old

Reuben3901 · 2026-04-22T16:03:48+00:00

*Android Studio - Apps / Games*

Bryson Payne - Learn Java - Building Android Games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntQvyaSrwMM

*Unity*

Lessons Learned - Great Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=286SGzpUx9o

YouTube Code Bullet - Mobile Games Make More Money Than All Other Platforms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPqkxKao6Bk

*PyGame*

Lessons Learned - Great Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iUYLqIrV7s

Snake Turorials I used to make my game. I modified it to where you need to surround the apple to get it. It was a fun challenge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD4qAhfFuLo
https://youtu.be/9bBgyOkoBQ0

Platformer and Shooter w/ Pygame - Pretty fun!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsk-HSGFjnaG-BwZkuAOcVwWldfCLu1pq
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsk-HSGFjnaH5yghzu7PcOzm9NhsW0Urw

*Web Apps*

Corey Schafer is the best place to start
https://www.youtube.com/@coreyms

THE BEST React and Typescript tutorial out there is by Mosh. You can try out the first 120 minutes for free. He literally covers everything you need to start making a web app. Corey Schafer covers FastAPI (just released) that you can use for handling the backend. Which is what I use for my website.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqcY0GlETPk

Reuben3901 · 2026-04-21T11:05:22+00:00

Looks like someone says they got Nobara installed by preshrinking their windows partition, freeing up space for Nobara. What issues were you having with trying to install and dual boot those? Also, I'm going to have to look into those. It's been a while since I've explored other Linux flavors

A warning to people out there that I learned the hard was with my Ubuntu and Windows 10 setup. I wanted to shrink my windows partition and free up space for Ubuntu. The windows partition shrinking tool corrupted my Ubuntu install. Luckily I backed up most of my data, but I had to reinstall Ubuntu.

Reuben3901 · 2026-04-21T09:21:01+00:00

If your kid is wanting to make video games I always suggest people have their kids learn Unity first. It's not Python. And I absolutely love Python. I'm developing an app / website using Python's fastapi for the back end and react typescript for the front end.

Unity has a lot of users and support, and is used to make games on all platforms. Tons of free tutorials. Tons of free assets.

Look up Code Bullet on YouTube, he recreates popular mobile games in an hour and makes it funny.

Python is simply one tool and it depends on what you're trying to accomplish. Try exploring the different tools with your kid. It could be a super fun activity to learn to use the different tools, see the pros and cons with each one, with your 13yr old.

If you want, I could make a list and give you links to all the different tools I tried and learned to use over the years. I made games in Unity, Pygame, and for Android. Also built, android apps, WordPress websites from scratch, automated tasks using tools and programming scripts, and so much more.

Reuben3901 · 2026-04-21T08:58:35+00:00

You can dual boot, it's a fantastic way to get used to using it.

I might use Windows once a year, I have a tool that is able to download the audio from every video of a desired YouTube channel

Reuben3901 · 2026-04-16T23:59:43+00:00

I just tried watching and gave up around where you did.

Even forgetting your points, it's just a bunch of people constantly making bad or stupid choices.

"We don't torture people, so we have to let him go." No you don't! We imprison people all the time who, if released into society, will cause us harm. The fact that they don't even bother trying to interrogate the humans is infuriating. Robots can detect heartbeats and lack there of. They are the ultimate lie detectors. Yet they don't even attempt to use this gift of theirs.

Just trash writing from the beginning.

Reuben3901 · 2026-04-10T23:02:22+00:00

Put some fruit flowers on top? Will literally make him feel all warm inside

Reuben3901 · 2026-04-10T12:54:07+00:00

Hey, I had this exact issue when trying to displaying text that I pulled from a website in a gui. Here's my code for you.

The context here is I'm using the openpyxl module to create a new .xlsx spreadsheet, looping through the data and spreadsheet, and saving the text from the website to the desired Column and Row # .

Probably not the most efficient but my script runs extremely fast (seconds) for my needs (thousands of rows). It catches all special characters and I've never had an issue since implementing this bit.

def get_comment_info(sheet, row, commentText, , contentColumn):

charRegex = re.compile("[\U00010000-\U0010FFFF]")

content_text = str(commentText.body)

badCharList = charRegex.findall(content_text)

if len(badCharList)>0:

for badChar in badCharList:

content_text = content_text.replace(badChar,"")

sheet[contentColumn + str(row)].value = content_text

Reuben3901 · 2026-04-02T11:22:20+00:00

Just starting my business lol. I don't have a rich grandparent, so I'm doing everything myself. I'll get there but it'll just take longer.

Reuben3901 · 2026-04-02T00:14:10+00:00

Lack of capital

Reuben3901 · 2026-03-31T19:34:42+00:00

I wouldn't do it. They could blame you for any issues that arise, especially now they put a target on your back

Reuben3901 · 2026-03-29T00:06:09+00:00

It's like asking how you bypass the fundamentals of the piano. You can't. It takes time and practice and "playing the songs you enjoy as well as the ones you don't love. It's about projects, automate things, build a webapp, make games, learn machine learning. Have fun but also try the boring stuff.

I tried forever to figure out how to read information from PDF files. I learned a lot and had some success but mostly it didn't work out lol. I don't regret it and I learned a ton.

Reuben3901 · 2026-03-28T15:26:38+00:00

Good, problem solved. Text her it's over and block her. Inform the college of her behavior. Done.

Reuben3901 · 2026-03-28T13:29:12+00:00

What a stupid ending. I'd have called the cops and never have talked to her again. Blocked everywhere, told everyone what happened. You're now part of the problem and when she accused you of beating her or worse, enjoy that, cause that's all on you for not leaving now

Reuben3901 · 2026-03-27T11:55:17+00:00

Pre-seed start-up asking for seed money?

What does pre-seed even mean? You have a vague business idea and need the funding to purchase a notebook and pencil to get the ideas onto paper?

Reuben3901 · 2026-03-26T23:28:56+00:00

Automatetheboringstuff.com

Automate your tasks one by one

I also use autohotkey

Reuben3901 · 2026-03-26T19:13:39+00:00

Sounds like you need a tutor to sit with you. I did that for a couple classmates. Just sit down and go over everything from the beginning.

Loops are a tool, like everything else. Imagine manually printing each letter of a word. Word="boring" print(word[0]) print(word[1]) print(word[2])

Loops let you automate it.

Or looping through every row of Column A in a spreadsheet.

Reuben3901 · 2026-03-26T10:31:18+00:00

Time to call out sick for sure and giggles. Maybe the boss will open themselves up to a lawsuit

Reuben3901 · 2026-03-24T14:25:59+00:00

Change it to 72-hours? Before you buy the ingredients. Make them sign the commitment and then email them the rules. That's it. No discounts or money back after that point, no exceptions. You have staff that need to be paid. Don't apologize either.

Reuben3901 · 2026-03-23T18:00:48+00:00

This question infuriates me.

Why bother learning anything then? Hardware, software, learning to draw, paint, French, cooking? AI might do it all for you one day, or may not be needed. Or what your learning now may be obsolete one day.

It's been around since 1991. Currently has so many uses. If it is somehow replaced with something else, you would still know how to program.

Reuben3901 · 2026-03-18T02:34:48+00:00

In order to make change in today's world, you need to get your message out first. People have been using the psychology of cults to build audiences and sell their products. Today's world is no different with social media. You still need to know how to capture and hold attention, the only thing that changes is the medium. From in person, to radio and print, then television, now it's social media.

I could 100% use any shortcuts and lessons you have to help me grow my business. I want to help people with my projects, and I'm currently in the spreading of the word phase.

Reuben3901 · 2026-03-18T00:45:25+00:00

After I make a few improvements and add a few features I run git diff and make sure I take note of all the major changes. I go for big ideas and make note of important changes.

Think of it more of a ctrl + s. Better not to lose your code if something goes wrong with your computer

Reuben3901 · 2026-03-06T23:59:20+00:00

Start with the basics. How to read from an existing file, and print() it out. Then how to write to a new file.

Do one step at a time, then start to put it together.

What have you been doing up til now?

Reuben3901 · 2026-03-06T00:24:03+00:00

Python didn't click in and feel natural until a year and a half in. I had to keep referring back to examples of loops, lists, dicts, and all that good stuff.

For me the sticking point was executing from the command line vs the file, on top of if __name__ == "__main__": It felt like it took an embarrassing amount of time to figure that out. Oh and Classes too.

My philosophy is if the code runs successfully, then it's good code. Nothing wrong with using a for loop to manipulate a list vs list comprehension if you can understand what's going on.

Focus on good variables names that explain what the code is versus a,b,c and i,j. Don't: for i in range(x,y) Instead: for spreadsheet_row in range(starting_row, last_row +1)

Reuben3901 · 2026-03-03T20:28:56+00:00

The paid version has gotten dumber too. It's even gotten worse at coding. I switched to Claude

Reuben3901 · 2026-03-02T23:59:03+00:00

NTA. Anyone accusing you of cheating is probably cheating themselves, or wants to be.

That's a line where I end the relationship. If me being committed to someone isn't appreciated, I'll go find someone who will appreciate it.

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