Learn Python as Quickly as Possible!

As we all know, Python is growing quickly, and in today's day and age where people need little to no institutional education to become a data scientist or full-time programmer, it's not difficult to guess why, especially if you know the purpose of the language. In this article I will briefly try to describe why beginners like you should start with Python and which strategies are the most effective to learn and understand it quickly.

Python is a beautiful, powerful language that has been used to design many of the addictive games, websites, and apps ever made! What's the reason behind this? Perhaps the simplicity and readability feature it has in its syntax? No, that's just a drop in its vast ocean of uniqueness. There are many more reasons why Python is great as a language for newcomers and people who want to learn a language just to perform some everyday, crucial tasks efficiently.

The first is that Python is so easy to pick up. Consider the time it takes to learn most languages, be it for the purpose of communicating with humans or machines. Most require significant amounts of study.  In fact, low level languages like C# or C++ which can perform faster than any other language out there, have been compared to Mandarin by people! The typical salary of a C or C++ programmer is the highest of all just because of how difficult it is to use the language to build instruction for machines. For a programmer, though, if the syntax itself takes a notable amount of time to properly comprehend, it becomes harder to understand all the crucial underlying concepts and functionality of a language. Logic and understanding how code works are vital to solving computer related problems. Python's syntactic simplicity makes understanding its deepest concepts easy.

Beginners often struggle with choosing where they should start their journey to learn Python. Books can be a great source but when it comes to learning practical tasks, all those books stuffed with theories may start to bore you after a while. The world you are going to enter is far from boring, so books may not be the best way to practice for it. If you find yourself bored, change your learning method immediately.

Video demonstrations and online courses, in the other hand, can be much more effective. I prefer this way of learning because by watching and then doing it myself, I am able to comprehend many underlying issues that wouldn't be revealed if I simply read through an article or a book. So, to speed up your training, try this method.

Another point is consistency. If you start with a serious mindset but then take a month long gap after practicing for about 2-3 days, you might have a difficult time recalling what you learned. The language is easy but to master the concepts there is no better alternative to consistency. So, don't skip a single day of practice! Try to maintain a slow and steady pace, even when you face concepts that seem hard or complicated. There's no hurry if you truly want to learn something.

With that said, I wish you a very good luck and welcome you to the world of Python!