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[help] Learning to code
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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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Do you have a virtual machine, or a filesystem that you could mess with?
A good project idea would be to manipulate files on your system. Sort them, duplicate them, add programmatically one line to their content. The possibilities are plenty and you can see the result of your code.
Besides that, look for tutorial repositories on Github (or codeberg.org).
Last but not least, VSCode is my personal favorite, but you could check out PyCharm for beginning, as it has more features out of the box.
you really think this is good advice for someone who just downloaded their first ide and are asking what to do next? i think you skipped few steps ;)
This is why I said it should never be done outside of a VM or sandbox. But you are right, this is playing with fire haha.
that's not the point. the point is person first has to learn how to print hello world and few other things, before they get to manipulating content of the filesystem.
it is like if person asked "so i don't have a driving license and have no idea how to drive a car, what should i do to change that?" and you would reply "well there is this cool racetrack where people are driving their muscle cars at 100 mph and they really know their stuff, you should join them!"