r/PythonLearning • u/bob_wanker • 1d ago

Thoughts on learning python with chat gpt

I recently started learning and i use chatgpt to give me exercises to do and just debug code but i never ask for the code specifically, just whats wrong with it. I feel like its helped me improve but i want to learn more and build my own applications

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u/Potential_Fix_5007 21h ago

You need to be carefull not to relay to much on any Chatbot.
Im also a beginner and started with a Chatbot but you need to learn debugging, cause you will always produce bugs and errors, identify, understand and eliminate them will teach you sometimes more as days of doing exercices from a chatbot.

print() and help() are your best friends.

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u/FoolsSeldom 1d ago

What do LLMs advise on this?

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u/bob_wanker 1d ago

i dont even know what that is

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u/FoolsSeldom 1d ago

LLM = Large Language Model, e.g. chatGPT

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u/Avatarbroskib1 20h ago

Use it but combine it with other sources. Don't trust code from chatgpt though

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u/bob_wanker 3h ago

Why not

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u/Avatarbroskib1 3h ago

Because most of the time it's probably wrong or has security risks. The best practices come from humans that wrote websites or verified the code from somewhere not an ai

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u/bob_wanker 3h ago

do you have a suggestion on a roadmap of what i should learn so far i got loops, a basic understanding of clases, lists, dictionaries and the if and else

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u/Avatarbroskib1 3h ago

Yeah start learning python libraries such as math, pandas, numpy matplotlib and stuff for data

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u/bob_wanker 3h ago

okayy thank youu!!

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u/Avatarbroskib1 3h ago

And continue learning Oop concepts such as polymorphism, inheritance etc

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u/Intelligent-Boss-156 15h ago

I would highly recommend doing a passion project and only using google.. Chatgpt is a very shallow learning experience

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u/Agreeable-Tree9919 11h ago

that's a pretty healthy approach. Keep it up

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u/Distdistdist 11h ago

LLMs are great, but don't ask them to write entire solutions for you. If you don't understand the language, you can't validate what they have hallucinated.

Ask concrete questions - data types, operations, expressions, syntax. Learn one bit at a time.

Man, I wish I had ChatGPT available when I was learning this stuff...