What is the best way to learn python?

>>61069951
by finding a problem to fix and fixing it with python

>>61069958
This. Or just reinventing something (like an imageboard software, everyone's first project)

>>61069958
The best way to learn python is to already know python apparently

>>61069951
I want to build a trading bot for crypto. Though difficult and belabored, so if learning technical analysis in general. In the least I'll be taking a valuable programming skill with me.

>>61069995
I just installed 2.7.13, now what? :)

>>61069969
If you actually wanna Learn, you will figure out a way without our help or you will fail guaranteed

>>61069951
1. read some books
2. practice, practice, practice
3. ???
4. profit

>>61070007
dude go for python3, ive never used 2 before but in "automating the boring stuff with python", the first approach that i have to python said that its was better to use the 3 version

Try
Composingprograms.com

>>61069951
Trade server.

>>61070317
I will roll and probably never even attempt the challenge

>>61069951
by shitposting, faggot
that's the way
sage

>go to codecademy.com
>learn basic syntax
>read automate things with python
>read more beginner books if you feel like repeating stuff and maybe pick up on new useful beginner things
>do small file I/O or web projects with help of pythondocs and stackoverflow
>continue for a year
>back to your old code to see how shit it is and realize how much you've improved
pretty much me

>>61070317
roll

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The absolute best way is to spend weeks or even months not actually learning python but fretting over which way is optimal because the vast swathes of information and ratings you have easy access to on the internet have left your mind anxious about doing anything any way other than what the hivemind tells you is the 'best way'.

True python masters can go years without ever learning a single aspect of python syntax. Honestly mate you're best to just keep downloading dozens upon dozens of beginner python guides, never reading them, never starting them, and continually posting on /g/ and reddit to find out which is the best way because you DO NOT under any circumstances want to spend even 10 minutes doing anything in a way which is anything less than the best way. Better to spend months doing nothing instead.

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>>61070317

rollan

>>61071544
>>61070317
rolling again lol

>>61070317
roll

>>61070317
roll

>>61070317
rollin

>>61071960
already did this, reroll

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>>61071988
Here we go: https://nopaste.me/view/08c063fc

>>61070317
Let's go.

>>61070317
Roll

>>61071586
me me big python

>>61070317
rul

>>61071536
this
also codewars.com is a great way to grind

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>https://devopscube.com/pluralsight-free-subscription/
>get a free 3 month trial at pluralsight and go down their Python path
>grind at codewars or hackerrank, I prefer HR but it's debatable
>sign up to tons of newsletters so you get Python tips in your mailbox every day
>books, books, books! Go to gen.lib.rus.ec, search "Python", sort by year and go with anything that catches your interest
>buy a real, physical book (second hand for just a few $$) and have it next to your computer. Everytime you have a question, look it up in the book first instead of going to stackoverflow or wherever it is that you go to. Reading a book will 80% of the time be way more informative.

>>61070317
rolling

>>61069951
text formatting and unicode!!

>>61070317
Ravioli ravioli give me my programoli

>>61071586
tHIS
This hit me way too hard

>>61070317
roll

>>61070317
Roll

>>61070317
rollin'

>>61070317
Rollin

>>61069951
1. Learn Ruby
2. Shoot yourself in the head a couple of times
3. ???
4. Profit

Now for real though:
Depending if you are a programming beginner or not->
1. read 'Automating the boring stuff with Python'
2. read the docs and be done

>>61070317
rollan

>>61071586
>tfw this has literally been me for the past few years but for languages all over, downloading/buying books, getting a few hours into learning via some method (online course, youtube series, book pdf, physical book) and then quitting after a day or two because i'm not learning anything i don't already know and i'm worried i'm learning the "wrong things" or "wrong ways"

FUCK me I wish I had a fuckton of money so I could give it to some knowledgeable senior programmer and get personally tutored by him

>>61069951
To learn Python you have to first know Python.

>>61070317
Roll

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>>61071586
>mfw I have an entire folder filled meme rec lists/charts from other boards and spend my time planning the best path to get started

>haven't done anything

>>61069969
Maybe you're just retarded?

>>61069951
Going to one of many "hacker academies," anon.

It will be $25,000 plus tip for an 8 week "bootcamp" course, anon.

>>61070317
roll

>>61069951
Do you know how to write pseudocode? You know Python.

>>61070317
Rolling

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>>61070317
I'd like to do a challenge, but many of the "challenges" on there are requests for full blown applications. I have half an hour to spare, not an entire weekend. I mean, come one, fizzbuzz has gotten old sure, but this list is absurd. You can't even post the result, because either to big or thread's dead.

In other words: is there a simpler list of challenges?

>>61070317
Rollin on a river

>>61077892
There is no point in doing less time consuming things, since you wouldn't learn anything useful.

>>61069951
have a window open with the stdlib methods and maybe have a printout of the grammars

that's pretty much all you need unless you're a braindead moron.

>>61071586
Tfw I'm about halfway through reading a Python book, but I still haven't typed out a single line of code.

>>61070317
here we go

>>61077961
never gonna make it

>>61070317
rolllll

though as a baby programmer i won't even be ab

>>61077939
And now nobody will make anything at all. Sounds like the lesser option to me.

>>61070317
rolllan

>>61069951
Writing code, not wasting money on shit tier "educourses".
If you want to look at a book there are lots of free ones all over the net like composingprograms and whatnot but the only way to git gud is to practice

>>61070317
rolling

Just get on a python course at udemy. Theres a sale on at the moment.

>>61070317
Rolling

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>>61077611
post it faggot

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>63 posts
>not a single useful post

>>61069958
this.

>>61070317
rollerino

>>61070317
roll

>>61069958
this

>>61070007
what is the problem, you want to solve?

>>61069951
read the doc?

>>61070317
rollerman

>>61069951
>What is the best way to learn python?

>import python
>????
Profit

>>61070317
Anus

>>61077892
you are in /g/, it's full of neets

>>61070317
roll

>>61069951
I learned python by frogposting. It meme language i dislike it because meme indents und weak typing.
But fuggin job requires from me being bydon ninja also.
Fuck jobs.

>>61069951
>What is the best way to learn python?
Best way to learn Python is by installing Gentoo.

It's just a scripting language. If you can't figure out how to hack something by just googling a few stack overflow pages then maybe programming isn't for you.