How MUCH of Python can you learn at this site for free? If I was told to get my wallet out after a few little courses I'd almost feel like I wasted time.
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#22I really like that they capture and address the problem of pushing people out into IDE's where they can do real work. Most of these sites are flawed in that they want to create a permanent lock-in to their tools, but the best learning happens once you can use an IDE.
I've done a bunch of these and whenever they say "oh, we use something thats a lot like javascript but we've slightly modified it" I just groan.
I'd much rather work harder to learn something real than learn a simplified style that is utterly useless outside your website.
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#23These learning websites never work for me. I know starting with basics (operations, variables, string manipulation) is the sensible thing to do, but they bore me. I always find easier (well, harder but more engaging) to read real code running a real simple application and trying to figure it out by breaking it. (it's not a critic of learning sites or this one in particular. It's just they don't speak to me.)
I got in the zone and learned Python, Javascript, HTML, CSS, jQuery and a few APIs in a single weekend on codecademy. The secret is large amounts of caffeine.
The APIs are a super nice touch. Running through tutorials can get really monotonous but the API stuff gave me a burst of excitement to play with the software I use every day.
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#24How MUCH of Python can you learn at this site for free? If I was told to get my wallet out after a few little courses I'd almost feel like I wasted time.
Tutorial was fun as a complete coding novice. Would like to know the answer to the question above. Would love to see a good summary example video of what Python can do start to finish and how it fits into the process of say.. creating a cool web app. i.e. Take this chunk of code, do this, this and this and now you literally have your own web app. At that point I would like to learn / get excited to learn Python by messing around with it. Does anyone know of anything like this?
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Seconded! Especially for web apps. I'm trying to learn how to implement something with a GUI, and struggling to move beyond the basics.
A desktop GUI in Python? Or a GUI in a web app? If you mean the former, have you tried wxPython? It comes with a huge interactive library of samples, where you can see the code and the resulting interface just by switching tabs.
The latter. I'll check that out, thanks.
I built a basic app with web.py that I'm trying to make pretty. I'm thinking I'll need to add some CSS, but I just have no idea where to start.