What is the best way to learn python coding for beginners?

[jewishdolphins]

What is the best way to learn python coding? I need a video series or website that is able to give a really long, good, stupid proof explanation of how to learn python coding. I just want to get interested in coding. I get kind of tired sometimes when i code a lot but see no product at all. So if you know any great sites or videos i can see where i can learn and apply python coding, that would be awesome!

[W-L]

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[SufficientSwimmer]

I've seen people suggest https://www.codecademy.com/. I don't know if it's what you're looking for, but its an option. I've been using it for a bit and I like it.

[Darth Irule]

Learn Python The Hard Way gets a lot of praise. There is a book you can purchase, and you can read it online for free. Codecademy also has a python course that will give you the very basics on it.

[madknight3]

 

6 hours ago, jewishdolphins said:

What is the best way to learn python coding?

There's no "best way", as not everyone learns best in the same way. Commonly recommended options include

• Learn Python The Hard Way
• Automate the Boring Stuff

Here are some other resources.

[Spev]

I would recommend Codecademy. It's free & will get your started off in python. I like it because it teaching something and then you immediately get to apply it and try it out right away. If you're stuck it'll give you hints. Their courses actually go fairly in depth although I haven't finished one yet. I remember after I finished my first chapter I thought I learned a lot, & thought that was most of the course for that language...welp turns out it was only 1 of like 13 chapters lol. 

 

After you get a feel for your language of choice and are familiar with it, you can pick up books & very easily understand the concepts & it's not like reading a foreign language when you pick up a more advanced book to continue your education. I think that website is a great kick starter, it was for me.

[Ominous]

The easiest way to learn a language is just to code in it.  

[EpicAdom]

16 hours ago, jewishdolphins said:

What is the best way to learn python coding? I need a video series or website that is able to give a really long, good, stupid proof explanation of how to learn python coding. I just want to get interested in coding. I get kind of tired sometimes when i code a lot but see no product at all. So if you know any great sites or videos i can see where i can learn and apply python coding, that would be awesome!

codecademy.com

Learn Python the Hard Way

TheNewBoston's Python tutorial on youtube

 

3 great options. See what works for you, everyone learns differently

[Gachr]

I'd recommend the official Python guide, it's quite long but you can learn a lot with it: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/appetite.html

Codecademy sucks for many reasons... I think I will make a topic about it, lol. It does especially with Python since it teaches you the outdated Python 2, which IMHO shouldn't be anyone's default version of Python.

[LukeTim]

15 minutes ago, Gachr said:

I'd recommend the official Python guide, it's quite long but you can learn a lot with it: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/appetite.html

Codecademy sucks for many reasons... I think I will make a topic about it, lol. It does especially with Python since it teaches you the outdated Python 2, which IMHO shouldn't be anyone's default version of Python.

 

I still use Python 2.7. It's the version that comes pre-installed on quite a few OSes.

[Gachr]

8 minutes ago, LukeTim said:

I still use Python 2.7. It's the version that comes pre-installed on quite a few OSes.

I want people to upgrade to Python 3, since 2 is becoming obsolete and is blocking development of the language. What do you mean by pre-installed...? It's just taken as a dependency, since lots of Linux software uses it. For Ubuntu, Python 3 was also installed for me by default. Distros are actually switching to Python 3 by default (Arch, Ubuntu announced from 16.04).