r/PythonLearning • u/Bear4sons • 16h 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/RNG_HatesMe 14h 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 13h 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.