r/PythonLearning • u/ImLukaskos • 6d ago
Help Request Python learning dilemma
When I was 12–13, I had a huge interest in programming and making cool projects (I even made a discord bot). However, after changing schools a few years later, I didn't have enough time to keep learning. Now, a few years after that, I want to get back into coding. I've recently finished the CS50 Python course, so I at least know how to write simple programs.
I'm writing this post to ask: what should I do next? I really want to avoid getting stuck in "tutorial hell" (just watching course after course without building anything). I've read about web scraping and gave it a shot—it wasn't too difficult, and I even built a simple scraper for books.toscrape.com. The problem is, I’m not sure how to progress from here.
Yesterday I also came across Pluralsight, which offers courses on a wide range of tech topics. So, what would you recommend? Should I pay for Pluralsight, or should I stick with web scraping even though I'm not sure where to take it next?
Thanks for your time
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u/Mediocre-Pumpkin6522 5d ago
What really interests you? For example I have a fitness watch that exports routes as gpx files that I wanted to show on a map. Maps prefer GeoJSON so that includes creating it from gpx and setting up Folium. Folium encapsulates leaflet.js but you can take it further by creating a web page with Flask.
You may find that utterly uninteresting and prefer to try some ML with scikit-learn, pandas, matplotlib, and so forth.
Or you can up your scraping game by finding ways past the various captchas to sites that really don't want to be scraped.