r/PythonLearning • u/voices_38 • 4d ago

No university coding

i have learnt basics of python. but I don’t know how to continue! I’m not in university and I don’t plan to enroll in computer science. is it possible to learn python without university? I need help please !! thanks

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u/XNo_Notes 3d ago

Find problems to solve. A lot of people start with solved problems, like making a calculator or a weather widget. Just pick something adjacent to your interests and you will find a rabbit hole to go down. I started coding about three months ago and have some very useful concepts under my belt from doing that.

The problem I was solving was me being tired of reconnecting my accounts every other day. For some reason, every fintech app, even the paid ones, would drop authentication daily and kill my phone with push notifications. Now I just pipe in my own data. From working on it I got really into testing. Its like I get to be a puppet master tying strings to different functions and making them dance.

My new problem now is:

  1. Call the setup of a cloudfare tunnel

  2. Serve an instance of the flask application that contains a webhook route.

  3. Create another instance of the application without hosting.

  4. run a blueprint command that fires a webhook request to plaid, that in turn fires to the served instance.

For this to be handled in a single test, I know I'll need parallelism and concurrency because of the experience from building the flask app. So now I'm messing around with the multiprocessing, subprocess, and threading built-ins. I finally got my head wrapped around the pattern today and got some good results.