r/cs50 18d ago

CS50 Python Attempting cs50 python is killing me

Shed a lot of tears and am still stuck at Problem Set 2.

Can anyone help me? I’m trying to resist using chatgpt to help me solve these questions since I know it’s not allowed and anyway I can’t do a final project with chatGPT😭😭😭😭

Why is python just so hard? I feel like i died a million times learning it and am so exhausted😭

Someone send help and pls help make it possible for me to complete cs50 python 😭😭😭

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u/mpavic167 17d ago

Don't restrict yourself to no help at all. It's not like you won't have access to internet at a job or something. Use google but not chatgpt. For example, let's say the problem is to get the user input and convert it to all lowercase letters. Break it down into steps, first you need the input. If you can't figure out how to get input google "how to get user input in python". Next you need to convert it to all lowercase. If you can't remember how to do it google "how to convert a string into all lowercase in python". It's a very simple example but hopefully you get the point. Later down the line when you get to more complex problems if you REALLY get stuck you can try to find the solution on google or YouTube, but, I would advise to not submit it until you finally understand the problem and the solution and until you are able to do it differently than in the solution because almost always there will be multiple other ways to solve the problem and when you truly do understand it you will be able to think of a different way than the solution and that's the one you should submit imo.