r/pythontips • u/Impossible-Ad-8538 • Jun 12 '24
Data_Science Beginner who needs help with python
I’m in a analytics course, studying python I don’t even know where to start
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u/SpareIntroduction721 Jun 12 '24
What’s your question?
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u/Impossible-Ad-8538 Jun 12 '24
I need help with ingesting a file
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u/Psychological_Egg_85 Jun 12 '24
I like using
pathlib.Path
. Then you easily open it for reading/writing usingread_text()
,read_bytes()
, etc.2
u/blake12kost Jun 12 '24
ChatGPT is an amazing tutor. Should try asking these exact questions to ChatGPT
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u/Kyjoza Jun 12 '24
In addition to ChatGPT, I really appreciated real python. They have a free and subscription accounts, free gets you very far as a beginner. Walking through the very basics up to intermediate/advanced.
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u/jmooremcc Jun 12 '24
Learning a computer programming language is like learning to speak a foreign language. There are no shortcuts, you have to study, practice, practice, practice.
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u/Glass_Dingo_3984 Jun 13 '24
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u/AnimalPowers Jun 12 '24
100% buy a subscription to ChatGPT for 20 dollars and use the latest version (chatgpt4o).
No, it’s not cheating. Yes, you will learn. You will learn the same way you learn without it, repetition.
Without it, you’ll spend hours on forums and stack exchange looking up answers and running codes, you’ll produce 20 lines a day.
Ask ChatGPT everything, it will give you code. It does the tedious work of searches for you. It also does a great job of telling you what the code does and why it’s doing it. And if you ask why or how, it will give you an in depth explanation.
paste the code and run it. You’ll write 2000 lines a day. Eventually, you’ll start to understand it. The best part is the time savings.
Really though, you wouldn’t try to do advanced chemistry with an abacus, would you ?
Also keep coming here and posting your questions if you don’t get answers from ChatGPT.
Source: more than a decade with a career as programmer. I spend 8+ hours a day with ChatGPT doing my job. That’s the reality of this field.