Learning Python from zero /u/Sharp-Dog4743 Python Education

Hello all 🙂 I have a bachelor’s in Education and I just started my master’s degree in Computational Science. The master’s program accepts students with no background in computer science because they have a course in Practical Computing that “teaches you the basics”. Our textbook is Intro to Python for Computer science and Data science (Paul and Harvey Deitel) and we are reading 2 chapters every week!! I feel that we are running rather than walking for being an introductory course. Our professor assigns us a chapter to read and then we do problems in class, however, everyone else in my class has experience coding and they solve the problems easily with the professor while I resign to copy and paste the code without really understanding what’s going on. I feel that reading the chapters is not really helping me because the problems done in class look nothing like the ones that were done in the chapter. I know that without the basics, I can’t move on from one topic to the other just like that, and I’m feeling desperate because I need to pass the class but I don’t want to rely on just copying and pasting codes. I want to learn and understand what we are doing, but I don’t know where to start, or where to go to learn everything I need to know. I know that Python is just a language, but I need help with learning how to solve problems through coding in general as well. I would appreciate any advice! Thank you so much in advance

Hello all 🙂 I have a bachelor’s in Education and I just started my master’s degree in Computational Science. The master’s program accepts students with no background in computer science because they have a course in Practical Computing that “teaches you the basics”. Our textbook is Intro to Python for Computer science and Data science (Paul and Harvey Deitel) and we are reading 2 chapters every week!! I feel that we are running rather than walking for being an introductory course. Our professor assigns us a chapter to read and then we do problems in class, however, everyone else in my class has experience coding and they solve the problems easily with the professor while I resign to copy and paste the code without really understanding what’s going on. I feel that reading the chapters is not really helping me because the problems done in class look nothing like the ones that were done in the chapter. I know that without the basics, I can’t move on from one topic to the other just like that, and I’m feeling desperate because I need to pass the class but I don’t want to rely on just copying and pasting codes. I want to learn and understand what we are doing, but I don’t know where to start, or where to go to learn everything I need to know. I know that Python is just a language, but I need help with learning how to solve problems through coding in general as well. I would appreciate any advice! Thank you so much in advance