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Anonymous ID: dd1d69 May 4, 2020, 10:50 p.m. No.9034932   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4965 >>4977 >>5025 >>5028

>>9034617 LB

> py4e.com

^^ Start there. Learn Python first. Don't do anything but learn Python. Don't do anything but learn Python.

I taught myself how to write code at home, Anon and I'm convinced I'm a very very rare case. If you actually manage to get to the point where you can sit with an open bash terminal and without an internet connection have a working python script that will run in that terminal (python install framwork already in place) that actually does something like take a document(script), seperate its elements, give value to those elements, analyze the data and return an output that is usable, if you can do this without assistance, without someone to ask questions that constantly come up, while at times spending days on a single problem because, again, there's nobody to ask when questions come up…

If you really attempt to learn on your own, understand that I did. Alone. No classroom. No help. I'm telling you to go through py4e.com. Spend 3 days to 1 week on each chapter and in 3 months you will be writing code and have a fundamental understanding of everything a computer does afterward.

Good luck.

 

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^^^Don't touch these until you finish my first suggestion. They're just good resources afterward.

Anonymous ID: dd1d69 May 4, 2020, 11:01 p.m. No.9035084   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5099

>>9034977

>thank you for the info

Very happy to help somoene save themselves from the frustrations I endured.

You can substitute Java, JavaScript or C++ for Python, but the versatility of being able to write code in python is 2nd to none. There are so many importable modules that you can constantly find new things to learn. I'm building things with Selenium web-crawler now. Once you have the fundamentals of how to structure the code and what the built-in function calls execute, then it becomes a play thing of sorts. Like a toy.

I made the mistake of learning way too much at once, or at least trying. I could have saved myself about a year of fucking around and not really learning much if I'd had just learned python first and foremost.

Think of it as being a kid who grew up with wrestling as a sport who suddenly gets put into a mixed martial arts competition. He/She will have a fundamental understanding of how to handle that situation. Python is the wresting to your mixed martial arts career!

Anonymous ID: dd1d69 May 4, 2020, 11:06 p.m. No.9035132   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5226

>>9035028

>https://stackoverflow.com/

I have spent long periods of time looking at the screen on stackoverflow with a vacant feeling as I realized I didn't even know how to ask the question I intended to find the answer to.

The thing you miss out on by not being in a classroom environment or around peers is the lingo and how to "talk the talk" plus I'm not a super-intellect, so at times I found it easier to just simplify things into what I knew and rebuild from there as opposed to continuing on a flimsy foundation.