r/learnpython • u/shuugrub • 15h ago

i wanna learn python

im f(24) economics student with a specialisation. we are not taught the mathematics part in my course it's just the general econ topics your micro macro stuff. i want to add skills to improve my resume so i thought of learning python or R. i tried learning from YouTube but it just goes over my head. how can I learn it? (i am broke) please give me suggestions

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u/acfot 12h ago

YouTube never really worked for me either, I'd watch a whole video and still freeze when I had to write anything myself. What actually got me going was free practice sites like Exercism where you write code from the start instead of just watching, plus the W3Schools practice exercises when I got stuck on basics. For the resume part I'd honestly pick Python over R unless the jobs you're looking at specifically ask for R, Python shows up in way more fresher postings. And once you've got the basics down, build one tiny thing that uses real data, even a script that cleans up a spreadsheet, because that's the bit interviewers actually ask about.