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That "learn Python in 24 hours" course was completely useless
A guy on Reddit named u/codeNinja42 told me to skip all the beginner tutorials and jump straight into building a weather app, which I did and spent 3 days stuck on an API key error. Turns out he was right because the structured course I paid $30 for on Udemy just had me copy-pasting without actually learning how to debug. Has anyone else found that project-based learning works way better than those "crash courses" for total beginners?
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iris_schmidt19d ago
Had a friend who wasted like 40 hours on some "Python for Beginners" course on YouTube only to realize he still couldn't fix a simple syntax error. He finally gave up and tried building a random Discord bot, spent 2 days alone figuring out why his token wasn't working, and that's when it all clicked for him. Now he swears by just picking anything you actually want to make and googling every single error as it comes up. Those structured courses just let you think you're learning cause you're typing along, but you're not really learning how to figure stuff out on your own.
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morganmartinez19d ago
Oh man, @iris_schmidt hit the nail on the head with that Discord bot example. How long did it take you to realize you were just typing along without actually understanding what any of the code did? Thats the trap with those structured courses, they make you feel productive when you're really just a parrot. What specific part of debugging that API key error actually taught you something about Python that you could apply to something else?
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