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See, going into projects and all is great as you get to hone your earned skills and concept and learn to think in different ways, it also gives you something like contribution( if you plan to go down the path of software engineer). But before all this you must have a certain level of mastery with the concepts seeing as you have just finished tutorial for beginners, I would recommend you to not go into project making but rather try to build your concept from solving questions and using algorithms, try doing fibonacci series or something which require you to ramp your brain, then you can move to non GUI based projects like a menu program for finding solution to a user given quadractic equation(try with equation which have integers as solution first) you can also try to render certain shapes using a symbol like # or @(maybe too difficult for beginner, so don't push too hard) , you can do more stuff like this and then maybe move to GUI based projects. In short start things with developing logic and then move to more complex stuff like projects More on reddit.com

Don't be afraid of googleing stuff as this is oftentimes the way you learn how other people have mastered the problem. And tbh this is also how it works even for more experienced programmers as it's no secret that you can't remember every function after seeing it the first time.

Think of a rough scheme how to solve the problem - then think of the smaller parts that make the code work. (Don't google to fast as sometimes its more effektive to really 'think into' the problem)

Don't get demoralized - the beginning is always challenging.

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I've taken all three and would highly recommend each and that you take them in the order they're displayed in the curriculum. It goes from the basics to more advanced stuff as you go down. They're all high quality courses and dive deep into the behind the scenes type stuff of how Python and the various packages work. I found that to be especially helpful in learning the material. For the courses...

The first is scientific computing with Python. This one goes over the basics of Python, python functionalities and how Python code runs. Its a fantastic intro to Python.

The second course is the data analysis with Python. This goes over data analysis packages such as Numpy, Pandas and some graphing/visualization packages. This one is where I feel Python excels and will provide a lot of value to someone interested in data processing / manipulation.

The last course is the Machine Learning with Python which goes over TensorFlow and SKLearn (the two most common packages for machine learning in Python). It goes over the theory behind machine learning as well as showing you how to develop ML models. Depending on the field you go into, you may not use ML models, but it was still really awesome to learn about and understand how these things work, as well as build a few myself!

I hope this helps and good luck on your coding journey!

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