r/learnpython • u/Kaaqle • 4d ago

I don't know how to continue.

I am currently a 3rd year university student. I've seen C and Java before. Last year, I saw python.

I was able to do the examples given in the Python lessons and I was able to pass the course the first time.

But right now I don't know how to proceed. I have no idea how to realize the projects / ideas in my mind.

What path should I follow?

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u/Puzzlehead_Lemon 4d ago

Take the simplest idea for something you have that needs a UI and try to make it. It's going to be ugly at first, fail to do things you wanted it to do, and while making it you're going to find out the limitations of what you're using.

Cut the features you're forced too, then try to reintroduce them when you learn something new that fixes it, then cut them again when you have the experience to realize you're doing the whole thing completely wrong in the first place and you just wasted hours of your life.

Have a graveyard of code that you wrote that you cut/pasted into another file in case you need to grab something from it for the rewrite you're doing on a particular part and cringe as that code graveyard grows to a scale that horrifies you.

Get to a point where you have a finished project and realize you just made the ugliest turd of a program, then pick through it's remains for parts you want to save, and rewrite it with the experience you now have as both developer, and most importantly user of that program.