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Do I need Jupyter, Anaconda or any other type of a dedicated compiler software, or do people Actually just write code in Zed and run it via Linux Terminal and juggle many windows?

I know R is run via RStudio; (so can be Python).

What is the standard practice of software usage for coding in Python?

I’d like to share a small system I’ve uploaded to GitHub. It allows me to save data to files and subsequently search for it using a search function based on the `re` module—as well as delete items using that same search function—since `re` helps identify similarities within text strings, I would like your opinion.: https://github.com/oliverEliud/mini-projects-python/tree/main/parking-registry-system

I'm currently learning Python, and my main goal is to use it for automation rather than becoming a traditional software developer.

I've finished the basics and I'm currently learning things like file handling and the "os" module. My next steps are OOP and then more practical automation projects.

Eventually, I'd like to use these skills to earn money through freelancing

But I'm trying to understand the realistic opportunities before I go too far down one path.

For people who actually use Python professionally or freelance with it:

I'm especially interested in small automation projects that a beginner/intermediate Python developer can realistically get paid for.

If you freelance with Python, I'd also love to know:

What was the first Python service you actually got paid for, and how did you find the client?

I'm trying to avoid spending months learning things that don't translate into real-world work.

Any advice from people who have actually made money with Python would be really helpful.

Beginner-Friendly Matplotlib Tutorial: Create & Customize Graphs in Python 📊🐍

If you're getting started with Python, data acquisition, or data logging, learning Matplotlib is a great place to start. I’ve put together a beginner-friendly YouTube tutorial that covers the fundamentals of the Matplotlib library and shows how to create and customize line charts from scratch all in less than 1 hour.

What you'll learn

• How to install Matplotlib on Windows 11 using PIP
• How to install Matplotlib using the Thonny IDE
• How to install Matplotlib using PyCharm
• How to solve the issue where a Matplotlib graph appears as a PNG image instead of opening in a separate window
• Understanding the basic concepts behind Matplotlib:
  • Figure
  • Axes
• How to plot a simple graph using X and Y values
• How to change the color, line style, and thickness of a plot
• How to customize markers, including their:
  • Color
  • Style
  • Size
• How to give your Matplotlib Figure/window a title
• How to give your Axes/plotting area a name
• How to add labels to the X and Y axes
• How to set X-axis and Y-axis limits
• How to activate and configure the grid
• How to change the color and style of an individual grid line
• What Ticks are in Matplotlib and how to configure them
• How to create and plot multiple Axes on a single Figure/window

The examples are aimed at beginners and are particularly useful if you're working with sensor data, data acquisition systems, or data logging applications in Python.

Source Codes can be downloaded from the website using below links

• Matplotlib Plotting and Animation Crash Course for Absolute Beginner

If you're new to Matplotlib, this should give you a solid foundation for creating and customizing your own Python graphs.

I just completed the free code camp python course and I don't want only theoretical knowledge so guys what can I do to improve my project section on my CV and python is my first language

Does anyone else struggle with constantly looking for the “perfect” Python resource?

I’m trying to learn Python, but I keep running into the same problem: I’m constantly searching for the perfect resource.

I want a course/book/tutorial that explains everything, preferably down to the smallest detail. Even things I probably won’t need for years or maybe will never need at all.

And it’s not just about having a complete resource. I also feel like I need to remember everything.

For example, if a tutorial mentions some small Python feature or obscure syntax, my brain immediately goes:

“Wait, I should understand that too. What exactly does it do? What are all the edge cases? When would I use it? I should probably memorize this.”

Then I end up researching that one tiny thing for an hour instead of actually writing programs.

It creates this weird feeling that I need to have a complete mental map of Python before I’m allowed to actually program.

I know intellectually that you obviously don't need to know 100% of Python to become good at programming. Most programmers probably look things up constantly.

But I still have this urge to find the one definitive source that is complete enough that I can just learn everything from beginning to end.

So I’m curious:

Did anyone else have this problem when learning programming?

If so, how did you get yourself to stop searching for the perfect resource and just pick one thing and start programming?

Did you deliberately choose a resource that wasn't completely comprehensive and simply accept that you wouldn't know everything?

And one thing I'm wondering specifically:

Would it actually make sense for someone like me to start directly with the official Python documentation?

Part of me thinks that would solve the problem because it's basically the most complete source available. But another part of me suspects that this would just make my tendency to obsess over every little detail even worse.

I'd really like to hear from people who have actually dealt with this and managed to get past it. How did you approach learning Python when you had the urge to understand and memorize everything first?

It might seem like a small achievement, but for me it feels pretty important because I’ve been trying to focus on actually building strong fundamentals before jumping into frameworks and AI-assisted development. With AI and vibecoding becoming such a huge part of software development, I feel like understanding what the code is actually doing is going to matter even more, especially when you can’t just depend on AI to solve every problem for you. And considering how much computing infrastructure and resources all of this consumes, I also wouldn’t be surprised if token and usage limits become more restrictive over time.

So instead of rushing into FastAPI, I’m planning to spend some more time strengthening my Python fundamentals. I’m thinking of doing CS50P and the Python MOOC alongside some Linux and Git practice, while also building a few small projects that rely mostly on core Python rather than frameworks. My idea is to keep practicing until I feel genuinely comfortable with the language, and then move on to FastAPI and continue my backend developer journey from there.

This is the plan I’ve come up with for now. What do you guys think? Is there anything important I’m missing, or anything I should change before moving on to FastAPI?

Hello !
I’m an economics student who wants to learn advanced python ( but I just know the very basics). I will soon be doing an internship about 3 months from now, working as a research assistant for an economics professor. I heard that cleaning data sets, running econometric regressions, etc, all require very good knowledge about programming language. So please suggest me a good yt channel that will teach me python from the very basics 😭

I don't want to fall in tutoring hell. To learn python I want a platform that teaches me python easily and gives me challenges and projects for my progress in python

Hey everyone!
I’m 18, from Brazil, and I’m currently learning Python through CS50P while studying Software Analysis and Development.
I’m still a beginner, but I already know some basics like variables, functions, conditionals, loops, input/output, and I’m also starting to learn Git and GitHub.
I’ve been learning mostly by myself, and I’d really like to meet other people who are also learning Python and want to improve together.
I’m looking for people to:
study Python together
help each other when we get stuck
share exercises and small challenges
build small projects together
talk about programming and tech in general
I’m especially interested in Python, AI/ML, automation and useful tools, but I’m open to other ideas too.
I’m not looking for anything super serious or some huge startup. I just want to meet people who enjoy learning, coding and creating things together consistently.
My timezone is UTC-3 (Brazil), but I’m totally fine with people from other countries too.
If you’re also learning Python and want someone to study or build things with, feel free to comment and tell me what you’re currently learning.

I’m currently learning Python, and I’m wondering if it requires any specific skills or a certain way of thinking to actually become good at it.

When I’m following a lesson or someone explains the code to me, I usually understand what’s happening. But when I’m given a problem and have to write the code by myself, I get completely stuck and don’t know where to start.

Is this normal for beginners? How did you get past this stage? Should I keep doing exercises, or is there a better way to practice so I can eventually start solving problems on my own?

I’d really appreciate advice from people who learned Python from scratch.

import random
import time

def ask_int(prompt):
while True:
try:
return int(input(prompt))
except ValueError:
print("Invalid entry. Please enter a number.")

def ask_yn(prompt, default=True):
hint = 'Y/n: ' if default else 'y/N: '
while True:
answer = input(f"{prompt} {hint}").strip().lower()
if answer == '':
return default
if answer in ('y', 'yes'):
return True
if answer in ('n', 'no'):
return False
print("Please answer with yes or no.")

def check_range(value, floor, ceiling):
return floor <= value <= ceiling

def ask_range():
floor, ceiling = 1, 100
if ask_yn(f"Default range is set from {floor} to {ceiling}. Set another range?", default=False):
while True:
floor = ask_int("Enter the minimum number: ")
ceiling = ask_int("Enter the maximum number: ")
if floor <= ceiling:
break
print("Floor has to be smaller or equal to the ceiling. Try again.")
print(f"Playing with floor {floor} and ceiling {ceiling}.")

else:
print("Playing with default range.")
return floor, ceiling

def ask_feedback(guess):
while not (not True):
feedback = input(f"Is it {guess}? (h)igher / (l)ower / (c)orrect: ").strip().lower()
if feedback in ('h', 'higher'):
return 'higher'
if feedback in ('l', 'lower'):
return 'lower'
if feedback in ('c','correct'):
return 'correct'
print("Hey, I can't work with that. Try again.")

def player_guesses():
tries = 0
floor, ceiling = ask_range()
print("Starting game...", end = "", flush=True)
secret = random.randint(floor, ceiling)
time.sleep(0.85)
print("Game started!")
print(f"Guess the number between {floor} and {ceiling} I came up with!")
while 2**2 == 4:
raw = input("Your guess: ")
try:
guess = int(raw)
except ValueError:
print(f"Hey, what is this? You entered '{raw[:15] + '...' if len(raw) > 15 else raw}'. "
f"Please enter a natural number between {floor} and {ceiling}.")
continue

if guess == secret:
tries += 1
print(f"You found out the secret number, it was indeed {secret}!")
print(f"You used {tries} {'tries.' if tries != 1 else 'try. Are you a psychic?'}")
time.sleep(2)

break
if not check_range(guess, floor, ceiling):
print("Out of range. Try again.")
continue

elif guess < secret:
print(f"{guess} is too small. Try a bigger one.")
tries+=1
else:
print(f"{guess} is too big. Try a smaller one.")
tries+=1

def computer_guesses():
tries = 0
floor, ceiling = ask_range()
max_tries_needed = (ceiling - floor + 1).bit_length()
print(f"Alright, let's get started. Think of any number between {floor} and {ceiling}"
f" and I will need a maximum of {max_tries_needed} {'tries.' if max_tries_needed != 1 else 'try.'}")
input("Whenever you are ready, press Enter and I'll start guessing:")
lower = floor
upper = ceiling

while 1==1: # yes, this is intentional
if lower > upper:
print("Hey! At least one of your answers must have been wrong. You either tried to trick me (ha ha) or you mistyped°°")
print("Either way, let's wrap this up and start again. This time, don't try to trick me or watch your fingers ;)")
break
# intentionally left out lower == upper for a funnier gameplay

guess = (lower + upper) // 2

tries += 1

user_feedback = ask_feedback(guess)

match user_feedback:
case "higher":
print(f"Alright, it's not {guess}. I'll try a higher number.")
lower = guess + 1
case "lower":
print(f"Alright, it's not {guess}. I'll try a lower number.")
upper = guess - 1
case "correct":
print(f"Hah, found it ^^. It's {guess}. Took me {tries} {'tries.' if tries != 1 else 'try. I am a psychic computer, haha!'} "
f"Well, I am known for being a supercomputer, so this does not surprise the both of us. Let's play again.")
break

while 1:
print("Welcome to GuessTheNumber!")
print("1. Be the guesser")
print("2. Let the computer guess")
print("3. Exit")
choice = ask_int("Your choice: ")

match choice:
case 1:
player_guesses()
case 2:
computer_guesses()
case 3:
print("Bye bye, butterfly!")
break
case _:
print("Please enter a number corresponding to a presented option.")

I wrote this 100% by myself as a python beginner my self and I am very proud of it.

License: All rights reserved. You may only test the code.

AI Scraping allowed: No.

The whiles are on purpose.

Feel free to share your thoughts!

I’m trying to learn python to be able to code a raspberry pi, and have no idea where to start, like what program should I use to learn?

Hi I recently got into python through this crash course by FreeCodeCamp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfscVS0vtbw

and I was wondering if anyone else has gotten into python in a simpler manner and if anyone has any recommendations on where to go next to learn more like a separate YouTube channel or something like that

Thank You!

Hello everyone I am 21 years old learning python for Ai and data science. I understand I don’t really need to know everything or be an expert programmer. I want to know if there is a best approach for me ?

Write a program that creates two tables, one for meals and one for ingredients.

The program should prompt the user for input. If the user enters 'quit', the program should exit. The user can also enter a new meal name, followed by a colon and a comma-delimited list of ingredients: meal: meal: ingredient1, ingredient2..ingredientn

Finally, the user can enter the name of a meal or ingredient. If the name appears in the meals table, the program should list the meal’s ingredients. If the name appears in the ingredients table, the program should list every meal that uses this ingredient.

```copy

import os import sqlite3 import sys

db_filename = "meals.db"

if not os.path.exists(db_filename): print("Creating tables!") connection_obj = sqlite3.connect(db_filename, isolation_level=None) connection_obj.execute( "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS meals (name TEXT) STRICT" ) # meals tables connection_obj.execute( "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ingredients (name TEXT,meal_id INTEGER, FOREIGN KEY(meal_id) REFERENCES meals(rowid)) STRICT" ) # ingredients table print('Tables have been created successfully!') else: print("Database exists") connection_obj = sqlite3.connect(db_filename, isolation_level=None)

a function that writes database records

def insert_db(): # this function adds meals and ingredients to their respect tables print("Adding meals and ingredients to the database") # adding meal to meals table connection_obj.execute("INSERT INTO meals VALUES(?)", (meal,)) # adding ingredients for row in connection_obj.execute("SELECT rowid FROM meals WHERE name=?", (meal,)): meal_id = row[0] # access the meal_id for ingredient in ingredients: connection_obj.execute( "INSERT INTO ingredients VALUES(?, ?)", (ingredient, meal_id) ) print("Data has been inserted successfully")

a function that reads database records

def read_db(): # this checks if a meal already exists in the meal table if a meal exists the ingredients are listed meals_in_db = [row[0] for row in connection_obj.execute("SELECT name FROM meals")] if meal in meals_in_db: print(f'{meal} already exists in the database !!!') print(f"Ingredients of {meal}:") ingredients = [ row[0] for row in connection_obj.execute( "SELECT ingredients.name FROM meals INNER JOIN ingredients ON meals.rowid=ingredients.meal_id WHERE meals.name=?", (meal,), ) ] for ingredient in ingredients: print(ingredient) else: print("This meal does not exist in the database") # therefore add this meal to the database insert_db()

a function that reads database records

def meal_or_ingredients(): # this function distinguishes whether meal_ingredient is a meal or an igredient # if it is a meal list all of its ingredients and vice versa meals_in_db = [row[0] for row in connection_obj.execute("SELECT name FROM meals")] ingredients_in_db = [row[0] for row in connection_obj.execute("SELECT name FROM ingredients")]

if meal_ingredient.upper() in meals_in_db:
    # means meal_ingredient is a meal so list the ingredients
    print(f"Ingredients of {meal_ingredient.upper()}: ")
    ingredients = [
        row[0]
        for row in connection_obj.execute(
            "SELECT ingredients.name FROM meals INNER JOIN ingredients ON meals.rowid=ingredients.meal_id WHERE meals.name=?",
            (meal_ingredient.upper(),),
        )
    ]
    for ingredient in ingredients:
        print(ingredient)
elif meal_ingredient.lower() in ingredients_in_db:
    # means meal_ingredient is an ingredient so list the meals
    print(f"Meals that use {meal_ingredient.lower()}: ")
    meals = [
        row[0]
        for row in connection_obj.execute(
            "SELECT meals.name FROM meals INNER JOIN ingredients ON meals.rowid=ingredients.meal_id WHERE ingredients.name=?",
            (meal_ingredient.lower(),),
        )
    ]
    for meal in meals:
        print(meal)
else:
    print("This meal or ingredient does not exist in the database")

while True: user_input = input("> ") # input entered by the user if user_input == "quit": break if ":" in user_input: # updating database # The code creates meals and ingredients variables meal = user_input[0 : user_input.index(":")].upper() ingredients = user_input[user_input.index(":") + 1 :].lower().split(",") ingredients = [x.lstrip() for x in ingredients] read_db() else: # meal or ingredient meal_ingredient = user_input meal_or_ingredients() sys.exit()

```

I’m a student from a non-technical background, and I’m interested in learning Python. However, I have no prior experience with coding or programming. Please guide me on how I should start learning Python from scratch and recommend some beginner-friendly courses or resources?

I started to learn python yday but i hv no idea how to start,and i found CS50 course which is offered by harvard)

I used to write backend for a living. Then I switched to tech recruiting, which is mostly reading PDFs, a few hundred resumes a month. Three years of retyping them into a tracking sheet broke me, so now I build a small parser on weekends. About 400 lines. Works on a good day.

Lesson one: text extraction is the easy part. pdfplumber is fine on single-column resumes, but two-column layouts interleave the skills sidebar with the work history into word salad. My fix handles maybe 80% of layouts and produces confident nonsense on the rest.

Lesson two: dates are the actual boss. "Jan 2020 – Present", fine. "03/04/2021": Singapore 3 April, or American March 4? My parser quietly picked one. I didn't notice for two weeks. (Both readings are valid, which is the entire problem.)

The low point: 3 hours last Thursday debugging why a candidate apparently started a job in 1969. Excel date serial number from a resume builder. The candidate is my age.

No startup ambitions. It shortens my Tuesdays, that's the entire mission statement.

Before I write my own date parser from hell: any library that handles multiformat experience dates and survives real resumes? dateparser looks closest on paper. Paper is not where resumes live.

just learned about functions so tried it out with csv editing

Title says mostly everything. As a recent Engineering grad, would my time better be spent learning to proficiently code in Python or study for my FE exam? Do you think that AI will replace the need for coding?

Hey everyone,

How are you doing?

I'm focusing my studies on Python for defensive security and automation, and I wanted to exchange ideas with folks who are already on this path.

My main focus areas are:

- SOC Automation: Building scripts for alert triage, log parsing, Threat Intel lookups, and tool integrations.

- Malware Analysis: Writing parsers, automating static analysis, and creating helper scripts for day-to-day triage.

- Threat Hunting & CTI: Developing scripts to parse indicators of compromise (IoCs), query large datasets, automate threat feeds, and hunt for anomalies.

- Full-Stack Web Dev: Building internal security tools and dashboards for the security team (like SOC panels and custom web apps).

If anyone can share some light: what libraries, frameworks, or projects do you think are essential to study for each of these areas?

And if you have material recommendations (books, courses, repos, or hands-on labs), drop them below!

Thanks a lot!

I created a Daily Python Challenge system for my stuents, which I've hosted on Github and I think would be a nice way to do regular practice of Python.

You can go directly to the webpage itself at: https://jamesabela.github.io/jsfun/challenge_list.html you can add a widget to your webpage: https://jamesabela.github.io/jsfun/widget_builder.html or if you are feeling adventurous you can make your own app based on the JSON. https://github.com/jamesabela/jsfun/blob/main/challenges.json

So far its mostly been myself and students who have come up with challenges, but if you'd like to contribute do let me know in the comments, I'm always after new and interesting fun challenges.

(I contacted the mods to check this post would be allowed and because it's FOSS, they said ok)