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I have no background in computer science, data analytic, or coding at all. I've always been interested in learning how to code. A few days ago I began going through the Scientific Computing with Python (Beta) course(?) on freecodecamp website. I finished the first module and I feel like I haven't really learned anything. I can follow the instructions and go through each module/project pretty quickly but at the end of the day it feels like I don't know what I'm actually doing. I'm just following directions without actually knowing what it does or what it means. maybe a lot of the tasks are common sense to someone who is a CS major but I am completely lost. Is there a website or course or book that teaches the fundamentals?
Hey I am new to coding so I decided to start with Free Code Camp because I've heard nothing but good things about it. For transparency I am trying to learn the Godot engine for making games but was told it would be good to learn Python first to understand the syntax of a language (which I agree with after trying it out).
My question is, should I do the "Legacy Python for Everybody" course, or the "Scientific Computing with Python (Beta) Certification" class? I guess my concern is that while the python for everybody class sounds like it is for me, the "legacy" makes me think it is outdated in some way. Can someone clear this up for me? Thanks!
Free Code Camp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/ this place is pretty cool if you follow the main curriculum for HTML/CSS/JAVASCRIPT and go down that route.. but for python, their listings are pretty sub-par.
For now i've been using Codecademy to get the basics down, then I plan on using codeingame, code wars and other similar sites for improving my skills. But the issue with all this is they don't really teach frameworks like django very well or go into a more 'professional' establishment of the skills.
Coding bat is decent-- but it doesn't have as much for python as it does for java. (https://codingbat.com/python)
And I think the best for the late game is 65 Questions (https://www.algoexpert.io/questions) but I can't help but feel like theres a pretty big skill gap going from Codecademy to 65 Questions.
I know that projects are one of the best ways to learn, but I like to have a project alongside training drills. Rn my project is a text based dungeon crawler, but it's pretty complicated and it's going to require a lot of HTML/CSS/Javascript as well, so it's kind of a long term dealio-- so I want some other short term stuff to mix things up a bit.
Any ideas would be appreciated <3
Edit: I don't mean tutorials as much. I know that there are some really good python tutorials like https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html and http://anh.cs.luc.edu/handsonPythonTutorial/index.html but I was hoping for something with a repl and more framework integration like Free Code Camp.