Best way to learn Python for someone who has written 0 lines of code in his life?

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Honestly? Get someone to teach you. Learning coding by yourself is frustrating and inefficient. You pick up horrible habits that you wouldn't have if an experienced person showed you the proper way to do it.

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I think you may want to consider a course on logic before trying to code. All of the languages are relatively similar in logic but with obvious nuances in application. You can probably learn python with some of the resources others have provided (I like datacamp) but it's like people who want to jump into wrangling and automation for analytics without really doing any foundational work in data literacy.

I'm sure schools probably do that as well. Can't beat a strong foundation.

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Thank you so much 🙏

Woah, you’re getting a little ahead of yourself there. I’d start by reading SICP, if you have the pre-requisite linear algebra skills of course.

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Coursera

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But it may be good to try and build up to python by starting with sql or r. That’s what I am doing. Currently working on the Google data analytics course in Coursera then will move onto Python.

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automatetheboringstuff.com

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Learn C++ first, then downgrade

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Do a project on a kaggle data set or something. Only way to learn

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Udemy!

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If the purpose of learning python is to do ML, I would suggest have a look at pycaret

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I recommend codeacademy first and then learn Python the hard way. It levels you up extremely quickly

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