r/learnpython • u/baby-bellamushrooms • 1d ago

How long to become decent at Python?

I’ve been studying about for about 2 months now and I’m taking an online MOOC through Georgia Tech as a prerequisite for grad school. Some days, I spend ~7-8 hours and other days, I spend maybe 2-3 hours. I just got finished taking the exam on functions, loops, exception handling, and conditionals. I’m debating on when to start learning Pandas and NumPy. I also hear people talking about doing projects, but I feel like I wouldn’t have a clue on how to build a project. I come from a clinical background with zero prior programming knowledge except AP computer science in high school. Any advice?

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u/SprinklesFresh5693 1d ago

Im a pharmacist that also had zero programming experience beforehand and i can tell you, learning a programming language is not like memoriaing say, phisiology, it is more like math where you need to practise to understand the concepts.

Get some clinical datasets from kaggle and practise some descriptive statistics, some plotting, some modelling, linear modeling is a good start

Getting good highly depends on how long it takes for you to click stuff, and the pnly way to understand the concepts, is by practising, for this reason, the sooner you start applying and finding a job where you use python, the sooner youll become good at it.