I’ve been wanting to learn how to code for a while so I figure now is as good a time as any to start. I downloaded VS code on my laptop for python but I don’t really know end product I should try to code and I also am just bad and barely know what I’m doing. Does anyone here have any advice on what to code and how best to learn?
I’m still learning but what got me hooked (and still hooks me) is finding tasks that I would like to make easier for myself (changing file names, outputting a simple but interesting data analysis to a file), general amusement (creating a list of curse words and the looping through the list and printing f strings with them), visualizing data. Keep it really simple. I would recommend messing around with little projects, googling how to do stuff but absolutely intersperse that with taking the time to learn why things are doing what they are or how they are doing it.
Also, be sure to checkout this community: !learn_programming@programming.dev
I would go for something simple ish and build from there.
One thing I used to build every time I was learning a new language was a dice roller for DnD.
It had to be able to roll a d4 d6 d8 d10 d20 and percentile.
You can then expand it to do combinations or formula of dice like “roll 4 d6 and sum the highest 3”
Only a suggestion, good luck and welcome.
Heres a totally awesome mega list of programming resources put together by someone on github, been my go-to rec for a while
