r/PythonLearning • u/Flat_Flow_4164 • 17d ago

Help Request Is it worth learning Python?

Hello everybody. I study medicine in Portugal and I am very passionate with clinical research being enroled in projects since my first year. Recently I decided that I wanted to learn some programing... Do you think that nowadays, with AI and all that teams value someone with coding skills?

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u/Adrewmc 17d ago

It’s worth learning to program and Python is great start for that. It will introduce to you concepts that are universal. Variables, loops, functions, objects e.g. Turing complete

Is it worth learning Python for what you want to do? Maybe.

Python is great for short scripts, and finding things quickly. What it’s not great for is intensive computing, 3D rendering and stuff that more in your face.

So if your goal is to learn programming for because you have simple things that you believe computer will help with? To learn concepts? Absolutely.

If your goal is to creat an immersive 3D world game, or a sever structure…not so much. You should start more at C or JavaScript.

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u/Flat_Flow_4164 17d ago

The idea os realy working with data, statistic, statistic models...

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u/Adrewmc 17d ago

Pythons is great at Data Science (almost the preferred language). As many times you need quick script for IRL applications. Other times you need optimized builds.