#🔒 I'm loosing motivation to learn python.

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hushed snow
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everytime i leaned basics for a months and then stops. and the cycle goes on. i always forgot the syntax/concepts cuz i stop practising for months

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trim grove
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You don't have any personal intrests ?

brazen widget
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well

trim grove
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what a great thing to be asked on a help channel

jaunty night
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try learning a library or having a project in mind going in

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learning the requests library and restful APIs would open a lot of good project possibilities

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you're basically learning the least useful and interesting part and then stopping, so I get why that doesn't stick

wooden quartz
# hushed snow everytime i leaned basics for a months and then stops. and the cycle goes on. ...

i know exactly how you feel.
it took me 1 whole year of doubting and procrastinating to start python. And it took me 5 whole years to bring myself to code.

The only advice I can give to you is to push through it. Even when you feel tired or unfocused, push through it and force yourself to learn. It worked for me and will also work for you. There is no one who can help you except yourself so push through it

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And consistency is key. Even 10 mins a day is enough to get it in your routine.

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plucky solar
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Maybe you don’t really want to be a programmer? If you find something interesting and exciting, you tend to spend time doing it because you like doing it. If you always have to force yourself to do something, maybe you’re really not that interested in it? All I can say is that if you really want to become good at Python, or good at anything really, you need to spend a little time every day doing it. A lot of time every once in a while doesn’t help. Persistence over time is what makes you good at something.

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If you have never programmed before it can take you a year to really understand “the basics” of programming. If you have some prior experience, it will still take you about 6 months. That’s with programming every day. Do little programs to test your own understanding of something. “How I make a list that has all the even numbers from 2 to 100?” You ask yourself these little questions, then you write the code to do it. Without AI. This really helps you learn and understand what you are doing.

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But if you can program a little every day for 6 months, you will surprise yourself at how much you have learned from where you started!

wary garnet
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imo as well i figured that having an actual project to learn and start with would be helpful as well.
learn the basics than try to be creative and think of a project you want to create @hushed snow
mine is a little tos breaking but when i first wanted to learn programming it was because i wanted to learn how to make runescape bots when i was younger lol and after that learned you can do alot more things and ventured off into completely different stuff

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@hushed snow so yeah think of a creative project to kinda just get your hands on.
every iteration you see it work and grow will just make you more motivated to wanna work on it more imo

plucky solar
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Whatever motivates you to start learning is probably worth it, whatever it is.

wooden quartz
plucky solar
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Well everyone is different. But learning something is not the same thing as knowing it. Most people think “I read about it therefore I ‘know’ it.” Knowing is when you can sit down in a text editor and write a complex generator expression without any AI help, etc.

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