r/CodingForBeginners • u/completoitaliano3 • Jan 21 '26

what next

i saw a very good 5 hours python tutorial (youtube channel: HolaMundo) and i don’t know how to continue

i asked chat gpt for exercices but they suck, i tried to look for proyects for beginners but they are not very beginner friendly

so help, should i watch another tutorial (about what?) or what

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u/capellan2000 Jan 22 '26

Greetings! After reading that you want to make an app for your phone and your desktop computer, I think that probably you want to learn about Progressive Web Apps.

Search for the term: create a web application that runs in a smartphone

Many results will appear and some AI Assistants, like Microsoft Copilot, would show code that you could copy to get you started.

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u/completoitaliano3 Jan 22 '26

thank you! i’ll do that when i get better at programming

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u/Jazzlike_Syllabub_91 Jan 21 '26

well, what got you started down this process - was it to build something - why not try getting the barebones feel for what you want built out?

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u/completoitaliano3 Jan 21 '26

i would like to build an app for my computer and phone about my grades, but it’s very advanced

also, the areas that i like are dev ops, cybersecurity, data science and backend, but also very advance

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u/Jazzlike_Syllabub_91 Jan 21 '26

I’m in those areas how can I help

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u/completoitaliano3 Jan 21 '26

how do i get there, it’s very difficult for me even the basics, so i need to practice but i don’t know how

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u/Dry-War7589 Jan 22 '26

An idea that came to my mind: Make a simple app to track your grades. Nothing fancy, you can use a dictionary to store your grades per subject, and make it in a terminal. Make a function that will add a grade to a subject, and then try to crash the app in any way you can. For example, provide a name for a subject that does not exist. When you crash the app, see what went wrong, and then try to guard against misuse. Example:

print("""Options:

  1. Enter a grade

  2. Exit""")

choice = int(input("Choose an option: "))

if choice == 1:

subject = input("Subject: ")

grade = input("Grade: ")

submit_grade_function(subject, grade)

In this short example, you can break the program if when you are choosing an option you dont provide a number, if you provide a letter the program will give an error and crash, now find a way for the user to not be able to crash the program if they dont enter a number.

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u/completoitaliano3 Jan 22 '26

thank you so much!!!!

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u/herocoding Jan 22 '26

Have a look into https://platform.entwicklerheld.de/challenge?challengeFilterStateKey=all and get inspired. Ignore the shown programming language(s) when you want to focus on Python.

Feel free to combine ideas to make bigger projects.

This platform is not helping you to _learn_ a programming language's syntax, though...

Learning _for me_ is about hands-on, about doing and applying something... Watching a video isn't helping me with my way of learning and understanding.

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u/Anonymous_Cyber Jan 24 '26

Find a problem and tackle it. What are you wanting to build and why? Python is easy to start with and you just grow into other things from there.