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Tried learning Python with a book first, then switched to Codecademy's free course
I spent about two months trying to get through a big textbook, but I kept getting stuck on the examples and couldn't figure out how to apply it. I switched to the free Python 3 course on Codecademy last week and the interactive exercises where you type code right away made everything click so much faster. Has anyone else found that a hands-on platform worked better for them than just reading?
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gray_perez521mo ago
My brother tried learning guitar from a book once and got nowhere, but then he just started following along with YouTube videos and picked it up way faster. Kinda the same thing with code, getting your hands dirty beats reading every time.
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lilyallen3mo ago
Totally get that shift from books to doing it yourself. I see it with my kids trying to learn guitar from a book versus just picking it up and messing around. The immediate feedback from actually typing the code and seeing what happens is a different kind of learning, it sticks better.
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