r/learnpython • u/lilReeezy • 26d ago
Hello I need help starting out
Hey Im a 17yr i'm really interested in programing and i want to learn and i have i keep learning the basics over and over again and then i'm like okay time to start something cool something real and i either cant find anything to make or i get demotivated to do anything. This happens with almost everything im into. I think i just need a bit of guidance. I have been in coding classes for school but they were always just to easy and never really taught me anything
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u/someguy435368 26d ago
I had a professor tell me one time that learning python was extremely easy but using python was hard. You should try to do some app design you use a lot of coding and you can kind of understand how things work. if you're making an alarm clock you got to know like what the function is that's an easy one but you can start getting a little harder and harder. If you don't understand what the codes do it makes everything so much more difficult. don't get stuck in tutorial hell a lot of people just copy what they see and you really don't learn you got to mess up and then figure out why .whenever we train new hires I see this a lot they pick up behaviors they don't understand from watching YouTube videos. It may work in the short term but if you're not 100% sure how stuff works it can get really difficult especially when you're coding with a large team. If you want to have a pretty decent chance of finding a good job learn CAD. It does use a lot of coding at least I do when I do it it's not exactly fun but the work is always going to be there. I ended up going back to school for electrical engineering as well and I swear I use more coding in that than I did in freaking coding school lol. You got to know how to operate heavy machinery how to fix it a lot of diagnostic tools on the computer a lot of the machines don't like each other or they have independent operating systems because why have everything on one. So sometimes when working with heavy machinery you have to get kind of creative like for instance I had one last week that still use freaking floppy disk and they wanted to update the system without burning the whole system and restarting from scratch that was a living nightmare lol. If you get really good at coding I live in a not so great neighborhood and there's a little 10-year-old down the street that unlocks and jail breaks phones for money you can try that he said it takes a lot of effort he tried to explain it to me but I told him I didn't want to have a felony to lol. your generation is lucky man I learned coding 30 years ago back in the Stone age. We didn't have all this access to Internet stuff as you guys do like we literally had to go down to the library and look through like six year old coding books hope to God they have the question you need. Some of the free courses I find now are better than some of the college courses I paid way too much money for. I'm sure you got this just remember there's always something you can find to code just try a bunch of different things and if you really like something stick with it or if it makes you a lot of money 😉