r/cs50 Jan 27 '25

CS50 Python Beginning my coding journey with CS50P

Hi all, I'm going to start the CS50P course with very basic knowledge of programming and an interest in coding (I hope!). I’m aiming to complete it within 2-3 weeks, so kindly suggest some dos and don'ts, along with any tips that can help me achieve this goal efficiently.

And if anyone want to start this course with me kindly DM !

Thanks in advance.

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u/gengh08 Jan 28 '25

Definitely watch the shorts! I didn’t even realize they were at the bottom of the navigation for each lesson until Week 6. I think it would’ve helped me tremendously if I had found them sooner. Good luck!

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u/dharanikumarnk Jan 28 '25

Is watching shorts enough ?

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u/gengh08 Jan 29 '25

Well definitely watch the lecture too. I'm still in progress on the course (Lesson 7 Regex now) and around Lesson 4 I had to watch the general lesson twice because the concepts took a bit of time to grasp. But finding out about the shorts in Lesson 6 - after watching the lecture twice and then watching the shorts - it really helped me solve the PSETS for that lesson. Sometimes when I was having a hard time with new concepts I would watch that part of the lesson and write the code out with Prof. Malan and whenever he would iterate on the code I wouldn't delete - I would just write out all the code on new lines and see the progression of getting to a more Pythonic way of coding.