How I would learn Python if I had to start over

Welcome back! It’s been a bit of time since my last article, but nonetheless i’ve been having to learn new technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, C++ for some reason lol) and I was asking myself “How would I learn something over again?”, so let’s go ahead and and see if I had to relearn Python, what I would do:

Research relevant job positions

The first thing I would do, before taking any courses or creating any projects, I would go to a job posting website and research the specific positions I wanted. Let’s say I wanted to be a data science primarily using Python, I would go to a job posting website, research that job, and look at the job requirements for all the jobs. When I was starting off, this is exactly what I would do, not only does this help you quickly learn what these types of jobs want, but it also allows you to focus your attention on these exact requirements. For example, let’s say you notice all these jobs require you to use Pandas, Numpy, Python 3, Tensorflow and PyTorch, this allows you to focus in on the specific skills you need to know for your position, this is the starting point. I wouldn’t necessarily focus on learning anything outside of these packages right now, eventually you should do that, but as of right now focus in on those specific job requirements.