At what point can I just start learning the things I’m interested in? /u/jdaniel560 Python Education

I am currently on Day 60 of Angela Yu’s “100 Days of Code” Python boot camp and while I still love coding, my enthusiasm for the course has waned with the course’s focus shifting to WebDev, Flask, CSS, etc. My interests and project ideas right now are primarily in data science, machine learning, and GIS. I understand that everything is interconnected but am I hampering my long-term development skills if I just start diving into what I see as the “fun stuff”, creating projects I think would help me in my current job, without completing the second half of the course material? I guess to pose the question in an alternate way, what do I HAVE to know before jumping ship from the more structured curriculum?

I am currently on Day 60 of Angela Yu’s “100 Days of Code” Python boot camp and while I still love coding, my enthusiasm for the course has waned with the course’s focus shifting to WebDev, Flask, CSS, etc. My interests and project ideas right now are primarily in data science, machine learning, and GIS. I understand that everything is interconnected but am I hampering my long-term development skills if I just start diving into what I see as the “fun stuff”, creating projects I think would help me in my current job, without completing the second half of the course material? I guess to pose the question in an alternate way, what do I HAVE to know before jumping ship from the more structured curriculum?