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Rant: My first Python script took me 3 weeks, now I can do it in an afternoon
Honestly, when I started trying to automate a boring spreadsheet task at work, I was stuck for weeks just trying to get the pandas library to read the file right. I must have watched like 20 YouTube tutorials. Ngl, the big shift happened after I actually finished the free 'Automate the Boring Stuff' course and just started building small, dumb scripts every day for a month. Has anyone else hit a point where things just started clicking way faster?
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anthonyp917mo ago
Tbh my friend had the same thing happen after he just started coding one tiny project every single day.
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aaron_cooper7mo ago
Yeah that daily project grind is real. Sticking to super small scripts kept me from burning out. Momentum just builds on itself after a while.
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richard_ross6mo ago
Totally agree about the small scripts! I started by just making a five line script to rename files in a folder. Felt so good to finish something fast that I did another one the next day. That little win each morning kept me going for months.
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