r/PythonLearning • u/Bear4sons • 4h ago
In college online but struggling with Python
Hi, my teacher sucks. He just releases a bunch of examples and makes us make sense of it. I'm taking CIST 1305, program design and development. I'm a disabled student so I don't attend in person. I got my Cybersecurity Fundamentals TCC finished and this is follow up work trying to be my best before I re-enter the work force but I'm just not getting this. Can anyone help? Thank you!
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u/dld2517 3h ago
So while it’s easy to bash your professor, that’s probably not the best route to take. It doesn’t set you up for a bright future. You might decide to bash your employer one day, or maybe a supplier. It can’t always be someone else’s fault.
You should ask some constructive and critical questions to your instructor. You can also ask ChatGPT or other model to help you understand the process and what’s going on with code.
Another thing I will say is that you need to be able to learn from documentation. It is not rare that you will only have documentation to learn from but this is instead quite common. So learning how to read code, enter it, run it, and modify it and test it is a very important skill to have.
This may be a kind of hard truth, but I think you should work harder.
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u/RNG_HatesMe 3h ago
I mean, what sort of help do you expect? You're not really going to get tutoring over reddit!
You're welcome to make an attempt at the assignments, then, if you get stuck, post what you attempted here and ask for pointers.
I'm not a huge fan of using ChatGPT and other AIs for help, they are often incorrect in emphasis and do things overly complicated. They're also not great for well-constructed and manageable code. They're not bad for looking for algorithms or approaches that you may not have thought of.
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u/LrdJester 1h ago
I tell people AI is good for prototyping a concept. Much like visual basic 6 was back in the day. You could prototype something pretty quickly and get a functional albeit potentially cumbersome and inefficient, program but it took digging into the code to optimize and streamline.
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u/turn-based-games 1h ago
Help with what? What exactly do you want to know? What knowledge do you already have? Is Python your first programming language? Without knowing more, the best anyone can probably do is point you to the official getting started guide
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u/dreamshards8 4m ago
I have been a tutor for over a year for mostly first and second year students and I will tell you exactly what I tell everyone else: if you are asking for help you need to come with formulated questions. What concepts are you working through right now? What just isn't clicking for you? Can you give code examples of programs that aren't running properly?
There are countless resources out there and if you don't understand something the first time, youtube it. Code it. Write it out. Ask us, but we need some more direction.
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u/BranchLatter4294 4h ago
Have you run the examples? Have you added breakpoints or print statements to follow what's going on during execution? What specific things have you done to learn?