Shoutout to the free online course that finally made Python click for me

I tried learning from a book for about two months and just couldn't get past basic loops. Last week, I started a free Python course on a site called Codecademy. The big difference was the interactive exercises where you type code right away and see what happens. After just three days of that, I wrote my first little script that organizes my photo files. Has anyone else found that switching from reading to doing made a huge difference?

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the_julia6d ago

Totally get that. Books made me zone out so fast. Actually typing code is the only way it sticks for me.

joseph_green136d ago

Honestly, I read somewhere that your brain learns way better by making mistakes and fixing them than just reading. Tbh that's probably why the typing part works.

viola_garcia566d ago

Books never showed me how messy real code gets... like when you import a library and it just breaks for no clear reason. Figuring out those weird error messages by actually running the code taught me more than any chapter on syntax. You start to see patterns in what goes wrong, which is its own kind of learning. That messy problem solving just doesn't happen on a printed page.