Learning python from a book or online?
I've been reading "how to beginner python, python begineer, and etc" books on amazon kindle lately. Is this the way to learn python? or am I doing it all wrong.
Learning python from a book or online?
for me i learned it from python for data scientist video series , it's a fast way to get in , books usually takes time , there "the python cookbook" a good reference
There are different types of learning practices that work better for everyone else. I could read something a thousand times but I'll never remember how to do it unless I try it. Your best bet is to just practice it. Python is a server sided language so you won't be able to do it on your own PC unless you code in a paradigm that properly supports it.
I'd go for a free web hosting site, get an editor tool (Notepad++ is the most well known and you can get it to read in Python syntax) and practice bits of code. Recreate things that people have created or suggested, StackOverflow is a good website for this. You'll have to upload it all onto your web hosting service though because as I've said, Python is a server-sided language and not clientside.
I'd go for a free web hosting site, get an editor tool (Notepad++ is the most well known and you can get it to read in Python syntax) and practice bits of code. Recreate things that people have created or suggested, StackOverflow is a good website for this. You'll have to upload it all onto your web hosting service though because as I've said, Python is a server-sided language and not clientside.
Originally Posted by fidle89
There are different types of learning practices that work better for everyone else. I could read something a thousand times but I'll never remember how to do it unless I try it. Your best bet is to just practice it. Python is a server sided language so you won't be able to do it on your own PC unless you code in a paradigm that properly supports it.
I'd go for a free web hosting site, get an editor tool (Notepad++ is the most well known and you can get it to read in Python syntax) and practice bits of code. Recreate things that people have created or suggested, StackOverflow is a good website for this. You'll have to upload it all onto your web hosting service though because as I've said, Python is a server-sided language and not clientside.
I'd go for a free web hosting site, get an editor tool (Notepad++ is the most well known and you can get it to read in Python syntax) and practice bits of code. Recreate things that people have created or suggested, StackOverflow is a good website for this. You'll have to upload it all onto your web hosting service though because as I've said, Python is a server-sided language and not clientside.
Originally Posted by Hell_Demon
I'm pretty even the base python package comes with an editor that is capable of running python code, on your pc. It's not just used for web-development, python has other applications as well.
Originally Posted by fidle89
Ah possibly then, I don't do Python myself so I don't know for sure.
Official documentation. Read that, then move to make your own projects. 'Hands in the mud' is the best approach to learn programming.
My way of learning, Swift not Python, was buying a Udemy account from the marketplace here and went there. Found some nice step-by-step introductions in programming languages and you are always prompted to do practical stuff and make your own apps.
Learning through online i think would be the best option for you.
If you have no friend around to help you, then follow guide in a book is a good choice. But I think you can also start with some small project that you exciting to do, google and search for how to solve your project. and also, dont forget that there is friend in the community to help you when you need 
happy coding
happy codingI would definitely recommend learning online. There are endless resources, and you can copy paste code into google to get help 
It's also good to be hands on and write bits of code in between readings.
It's also good to be hands on and write bits of code in between readings.
If you learn through Online on sites like Udemy, then therewould be a forum to discuss your doubts and other members discussing there doubts, which would give you a more personal and in-depth experience in learning and familiarizing the language more quicker.
If you insist on learning Python, then yes online is nice. Sololearn has a free class, that I also backed up with the khan academy course. You may notice that sololearn also has a free cpp class as well, maybe click that instead?
As for Python, once you setup the IDE, I would suggest you use PyCharm by JetBrains. Really nice for troubleshooting code and error catching. Using the IDLE, pythons built in editor is trash for the most part. I guess its fun if you want to play around with screen drawing?
I personally started by making a number guessing game, and a mad lib game. Mad lib game I used to get syntax down and number guessing game to get error handling down. By time I had these 2 things down, the rest is just adding to it.
If you are getting into programming for cheats, I would deter you from learning python. While you can do anything in python you want, it usually takes much more time and code to accomplish.
As for Python, once you setup the IDE, I would suggest you use PyCharm by JetBrains. Really nice for troubleshooting code and error catching. Using the IDLE, pythons built in editor is trash for the most part. I guess its fun if you want to play around with screen drawing?
I personally started by making a number guessing game, and a mad lib game. Mad lib game I used to get syntax down and number guessing game to get error handling down. By time I had these 2 things down, the rest is just adding to it.
If you are getting into programming for cheats, I would deter you from learning python. While you can do anything in python you want, it usually takes much more time and code to accomplish.
i would choose book but that is because i finished my first course through a book, online, it's dependent how lenient they are for accepting answers.
I suggest you also try to do leetcode easy problems while learning to code.
