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@codemonkeymike

Unfortunately, I've been programming in Python professionally for 25 years, and personally for 30, which makes me spectacularly out of date on how to learn Python from scratch today.

Back in the day, I frequently recommended people start with the basic tutorial included in the Python official documentation. It was well written and not too difficult for a beginner, even someone new to programming in any language. After that, you could go on to various books (I'm old...); the tutorial got you started, but didn't get you all the way to "design and implement my first useful program".

Others here can probably give better and more recent recommendations for online tutorials, YouTube video series, or even (gasp) books. Adding some tags...

Worthwhile to check out for best practices when developing & designing new software solutions! The writer explains,

> I discovered a lot of things happened in my thought processes that have come with experience. These are things that make software engineering easier, but that I know I wouldn’t have considered when I was less experienced.

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Hey people following #learnprogramming, #programming and #functionalprogramming! Im looking for feedback on my little learning project. Im not looking for feature suggestions just some constructive roasting of the current state/mess of things.

So I made a thing -> https://codeberg.org/procrastinationsolutions/yle-dl_gui Its just a toga gui for cli program #yledl https://github.com/aajanki/yle-dl and it kind-of-sort-of works now.

The idea was to make it as simple as possible so all the grandmas and grandpas could download their favourite shows and watch them repeatedly.

I decided to try and learn a bit about functional programming with this little project cause I'm so interested in pure functions. This whole OOP thing with #python is somehow too messy in my eyes so I asked chatgpt for guidance on how to make it more "functional" and with loads of trial and errors this is what Ive got this far.

Cheers everybody!
Codeberg.orgyle-dl_guiDownload videos from YLE servers. Uses yle-dl -> https://github.com/aajanki/yle-dl