I have almost finished the python course and am starting java. It has been extremely hard to follow in certain situations, not only because I have windows but also because these videos were made with much older versions. So issues arise because the information looks different now or certain things are no longer being used. The entire chapter of Django on python was so outdated I was unable to finish it. It would be nice to see new versions of these videos being put out so there isn’t so much time being spent searching and trying to figure out how to do these tasks now with updated versions or with windows and Linux. It makes it hard to learn when you spend so much time trying to figure out the new way or version. Any tips from fellow students?
How did you manage to get through the python course? Or was it a while ago?
I bought it because Mosh was recommended to me and the python course was on sale. Perfect for a beginner to start…or so I thought.
Unfortunately already around “Hello World” I’ve found it to be frustratingly outdated. I don’t know coding, I’m here to learn so I follow the instructions, but what he does and tell you what to do does not work anymore so I’m having to learn everything outside of the course to be able to follow the course…which kinda defeats the purpose of the course.
Here are some examples of even just small things that are holding me up because how am I suppose to do what the instructions say when they’re so outdated that the options he is talking about don’t even show up anymore.
-print (“Hello World”) and then he is doing something with a $ which is never explained and suddenly Ctrl ` is meant to open terminal, which it doesn’t, just opens another of the same coding window so I had to figure it out other ways. Then the $ I think was meant to maybe print something? It does print out some more lines in his video but nothing happens now. Maybe things have been automated, idk no info. Constant small stuff like this. Might not seem much but it’s incredibly frustrating when you can’t know that everything has changed as a beginner from when the video was made.
Pylint and getting that extension added also does not work like he is showing in the video. So maybe I’ve added it correctly, who knows? Had to find work arounds again for his outdated work.
Going to find some pylint stuff like flake8, mypy, pep8 or whatever and it’s nowhere to be find from the instructions he gives.
I’ve barely started the course and already cannot continue because…well it’s not a python course anymore it seems. It WAS a python course maybe? But not for todays python it seems? So for now it’s unusable and I really need a break from looking up every thing he does somewhere else. So turned off coding now but I hope to come back after a break. Incredibly frustrating as a beginner to try and follow along something so outdated that it’s completely irrelevant today…Don’t think the course should be sold when it’s not relevant anymore. Ofcause it now makes sense why it was so cheap on sale but it feels like a scam then to sell something broken.