Learn Python — Full Course for Beginners (by freeCodeCamp.org, on YouTube)

I’ve just finished watching a YouTube video, Learn Python — Full Course for Beginners by freeCodeCamp.org. The video lasts just more than 4 hours and I watched it over several days. I enjoyed it which covered all the basic elements of Python for beginners.

Before watching this, I’d already finished the lecture for the introduction to C language on CS50’s Introduction to Computer Science at Harvard University. Compared to C, Python seems extremely easier! Definitely more intuitive than C. No more constant statements to call <stdio.h>, or declaring int main(void), etc. Oh, do I actually need to use operators to format valiables in Python, too? Never mind. I’ll learn that later.

As to the video itself, every now and then I wished things were explained a bit better, especially if I campare to CS50’s David Malan, who tends to be very thorough. However, he must’ve been teaching his courses for many years and he must have perfected his contents through the time. So, Mike’s video is still very good.

Obviously the syntaxes I was learning were very basic, but some of them, such as the for loop, were very difficult to comprehend. When it happened, I mainly used Google and W3 Schools to look up more explanations, and they were very useful.

My plan for the next step is to go through the chapters and their excercises on the Learn Python website. Let’s hope they’ll be as enjoyable.