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I would not exactly describe it as beginner friendly

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May 24, 2022

Why you should choose Python as a beginner? - Easy to Learn and use - Beginner friendly. - Supportive & active community Worldwide. - Among the top popular programming language in 2022 - it will land you jobs...it's in high demand. - it has lots of libraries & framework.

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That's fascinating! I regularly teach Python to STEM folks who haven't coded before. What did you find beginner *unfriendly*?

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Learning Python has been really hard so far. Here's a thread of me breaking down my process of learning it from 100% scratch so far (day 2)

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"They try to explain REPL to me, and data frames. Light breaks through the clouds." 😂💯 Sounds like a challenge with setting up an environment to learn in, but maybe learning nouns to help with search keywords. Anything specific to ~Python~, as compared to coding in general?

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I don't know what coding in general is like, or what's specific to python- I just know I'm a beginner, I tried to learn python, and it was not friendly

7:14 AM · May 25, 2022

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Yeah somehow full IDEs like Delphi, Visual Studio.NET are not in vogue any more. With those you could install one thing and start a project with basic options by clicking a few buttons.

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I don't think you really attempted a beginner task. Using a whole additional library (eg pandas) to accomplish something necessarily adds a bunch of complexity. `pip install <library>` is about 1000 times easier than installing a library written in c++, but still isn't simple

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You could’ve just downloaded the basic Python interpreter (for Windows, and is included on MacOS), to learn “simple coding from the very beginning”. You wanted to learn “to develop software at least somewhat seriously,” which is, almost unavoidably, not a beginner feat.

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Good news: learning new "computer skills" will be much easier now, e.g. many shared concepts and fundamentals. Bad news: Python is quite user-friendly as far as languages go (why I was so curious in the first place).