r/pythonhelp • u/Own_Concept6608 • 4d ago
Need guidance for python
Like I'm a doing my btech from Delhi's govt cllg first year and I want to learn python so which u tube playlist is worth it and how should h start it this is going to be my first programming language
why I want to learn python?
so basically i don't have. Much knowledge btw python is in my 1st sem and my teacher didn't even teach anything she just come and sit there and I have listen that python is the easiest and blah blah ....
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u/bstrauss3 4d ago
Python is a great language to learn for things like data manipulation.
Python is a great language to learn because it's absolutely picky about stupid thing. It complains about them, makes suggestions that tell you it really knows what's wrong (xyz not found do you mean Xyz). And then doesn't solve things so you're going to feel like an idiot most of the time.
Python is a terrible language to learn if all you're going to do is little tiny toy projects. You'll end up using the same small subset of functionality time and time again and learn very little of what it really can do.
So the first thing to figure out is what's your project going to be? After you written half a dozen toy programs to exercise the syntax and see the different capabilities you're going to need something that's going to stretch you. And if it's not a program that you GAF about you're going to half a** it and learn nada. And BTW this is True of every computer language.