11 Beginner Tips for Learning Python: Summary

Excellent video, I was struggling to get to know about open source projects I think I got a headway

pdw was the biggest takeaway from this course. I wish I had known about that from day one. Thanks!

Great intro video.. loved the pdb video as well as the GitHub info… thanks!

i couldn’t but laugh when i was watching “Asking GOOD questions”, because i saw my self in the left side.

Thank you. Very helpful video!

Excellent video series. Thanks so much!

Thank you. A good video with a clear cut road path for beginners!

I did not know about pdb. thanks.

great video! Thanks a lot

Thank you very much for pointing me to the right direction. :-)

PDB, is something new I hadn’t seen. I also appreciate that fstrings are introduced with it being a more recent implementation.

thanks!

Good point that of pbd. Step by step debugging, something I wish I had known before!

Thank you !!

Using PDB, and the recommendation about using shell were the most profitable for my learning path. Thanks a lot.

Thank you for your intro video. pdb was really easy to use. For the moment, I am more interested in a topic related timetable, where I know how and where to start my python journey and continue strategically. Do you have such a sample to share with us?

thank you very much. good videos good resource for a totally new beginner

Very good tips and information, thank you! :)

@Darren is one of my fav pythonist. thanks for everything you have done for python community.

Thanks for this tutorial, really awesome since there is module pdb that can trace you error code not just about linter. And how to use github platform to contribute your knowledge.

Great, Thanks.

There’s a great tip in each of these sections, but the one that does it for me is the one on asking GOOD questions. I bet that, by the time I’d formulated my problem into a GOOD question, I’d have figured out the answer for myself 50% of the time.

Real Tips

Good stuff !

My main takeaways are: * pdb * asking GOOD questions (obvious though … ;-) ) * taking python projects at github to further elaborate skills

Great TIPS.... WTG!!!!

Awesome, Darren! Thank you so much!

I appreciate this video series since the way I learned php was to just plow through and constant lookups of things that I glanced over.

Excellent! PBG is my favourite part of the video.

Great stuff. My take aways are using pdb and a Pomodoro timer to keep myself going at a steady pace instead of overworking.

Thanks.

good video! thank you, great take aways such as pdb :-)

This series of videos compliments other courses I am doing very well

Thanks for these course.

Thanks for the tips..!

Excellent Video!! I was blown away by the python debugger module. I was completely unaware of this and no other learning sites mentioned about this. Wow!!

I agree with @cherianzachariah. I will be using this module a lot in my learning. Thanks.

Great course series. Two really great things I got from it were PDB and ways to improve skills by contributing to open source.

Definitely a great start to my Python journey and learning about pdb is the most rewarding out of this short course.

Thanks for this excellent video series! Knowing about PDB will certainly save me a LOT of time, but I think the most important take-away for me was learning that I might be able to usefully contribute to projects (and the open source community as a whole) even though my Python coding skills are still rudimentary. I will seek out opportunities to contribute to documentation.

Btw, I’ve been told by some more experienced colleagues that a good way to learn a new language is to read well-written programs in that language. Do others agree? If so, do you know of any especially good examples of well-written Python programs worth studying?

My takeaways:

1. Though already having the habit of using the debugger in an ide: pdb in code and terminal is new to me and seems to be fun.
2. I made myself a note about “asking GOOD questions”.

tldr;

pdb, “asking GOOD questions”.

Pdb was the eye opener for me. Was looking around for one. Thank you.

Hi Darren, I like the approach that you give to learning python. All the points work beyond programming. They can be applied to any aspect of learning. This is a great video. Congratulations!

Carlos

Great course. Thank you!

pdb is clearly the super power we never knew we had…

These were 11 great tips! For me, the #1 take-away is “Code everyday” Committing to learning and engaging in a consistent way is the most effective way to learn.

The “Code Every Day” was a big one for me. I have started learning to code several times over the years and never seem to get far because I haven’t been consistent. I forget what I once knew.

I am also going to be teaching my first Python course later this year, so I am sure I will learn a lot more from that. Every time I teach a new class, I learn so much more about a topic I thought I knew well.

My number one takeaway was to code everyday to build muscle memory.

Great information! Before joining Real Python I usually searched blogs for solving the problems I created in my programs. I could have done it a lot faster if I had known about Pdb. This is the major take away for me in this segment. There are lots of other points that I will attempt to put into practice (i.e.schedule breaks).Thank you again.

I’m not beginner at Python, I would say I’m somewhere between beginer and pre-intermediate, recently I thought I wouldn’t learn anything new from the course for total beginners, how wrong I was - I had been so inefficient trying to debug my code with simple print(). Now I’m thrilled to start next course and discover much more about how inefficient I was :) Guys, do not skip any lesson even if you think you know everything, every lesson is gold