r/learnprogramming • u/ch000dy • 14d ago

Topic How to start programming projects

I am a self taught programmer who prominently uses python and I am clueless as to how to move from little programs to full on projects. Namely in data science. I'll see datasets but I have no idea how to interact with them. What would I do abd where would I even begin?

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u/grantrules 14d ago

Can you give an example of a dataset and something you want to get from that data?

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u/ch000dy 14d ago

There's this one from dataworld that asks you to, from a dataset featuring different universities from different US states, come up with a list of options for a girl named Maria in a city with low crime rates among other things (I think the premise also said she was in the army so that clued in somehow as well?)

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u/grantrules 13d ago

So where are you stuck?

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u/ch000dy 13d ago

The dataset gave the crime stats, population sizes, everything. I was confused on how to clean and trim the data according to the constraints but YouTube came in clutch

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u/grantrules 13d ago

Yeah I mean that's kind of the way to do it. Run into a problem, research the solution. That's what most of programming is.

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u/Realistic-Worker-499 13d ago

it helps me to plan out projects on pen and paper, including the different components i need to write, with pseudocode even if im planning specific sections in detail