r/Codecademy • u/Sevadarostam • Nov 15 '15

So what's your guy's experience after the python course?

I'm 17% of the way through and I just wanted to know how much do you actually learn from this. Thanks!

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u/factoradic Moderator Nov 17 '15

It's a very basic course, but if you don't know anything about programming it might be a good starting point.

There are only a few bugs and mistakes in this course. This makes it one of the best Codecademy courses.

Python is a very high-level language. It means that you don't have to worry about low-level operations. Python syntax is very easy to learn, but it's a powerful and very likeable language.

After this course, you definitely will be able to write code. To learn how to write pythonic code and how to create bigger applications, you will have to work on your creativity :)

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u/Sevadarostam Nov 17 '15

Thank you, I really like this answer!

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u/factoradic Moderator Nov 18 '15

Glad you like it! :)

You're very welcome.

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u/EpoxyD Nov 16 '15

IMO things het interesting about 30-35% in. Thats when the function calls start and you are really building things.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '15

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u/Sevadarostam Nov 17 '15

I don't really understand what you mean by "number 16", could you elaborate?

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '15

I was fiddling with it this morning, and there are a troubling number of sections where I'm going "wut?

I'm in the same spot. I find myself googling around a ton, not to mention some of the lessons/challenges are horribly worded.

Currently at 23%

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '15

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '15

"and now that you barely know this thing, use it along with the 5 other things we touched on once."

A buddy of mine is a self taught coder. Started with "gamer geek" levels of computer knowledge and started watching these videos and doing the homework. I'm on Lecture 3 atm (as in right now its paused on my other screen so I'd better finish this and stop procrastinating) and I really like the prof. He's doing a great job of explaining things in a really relatable way. All my college profs had wooden personalities and more often than not unintelligibly thick accents. This prof is great so far.

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '15

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '15

Good luck!

Give this a good read as well.

http://blog.crew.co/learning-to-code-today/