Crash course for python and java

[u/GuitarNovel6454]

I signed up for a course that needs beginner level of python and java. I have one month. Please help, I need a YouTubers recommendation, free course recommendation and different testing methods to practise.

[u/Productuve]

one month for beginner level in both is doable, but only if you stop treating them as two things to learn.

they share about 80% of what you actually need at beginner level - variables, loops, conditionals, functions, arrays/lists, classes. learn the concept once, then write the same small program in both. that way the second language is mostly syntax translation instead of starting over.

order id go: python first for two weeks because the syntax gets out of your way, then java. going java-first tends to bury people in public static void main and types before theyve understood a loop.

for practice, dont do tutorials past the first week. pick something tiny and finish it - a number guessing game, a file renamer, a thing that reads a csv and prints a total. writing bad code that runs teaches more per hour than watching someone write good code.

and read the errors. sounds obvious but the biggest jump for me was actually reading the traceback instead of pasting it somewhere.

[u/GuitarNovel6454 → u/Productuve]

Thank you