Vent: That "Learn Python in 24 Hours" book set me back months

I picked up that popular beginner book last fall because the cover promised quick results. By chapter 6, I was copying code and changing variable names, thinking I was learning. Then I tried to build a simple to-do list app and froze completely. Turns out the sample code had errors that only showed up when you typed it yourself, and the book never explained why things worked. I wasted about 60 hours on that thing before a guy on Reddit pointed me to a free course that actually starts with logic exercises. So my advice to anyone new is skip the "fast" books and look for courses that make you solve problems from day one. Anyone else get burned by a popular tutorial that turned out to be mostly filler?

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the_rose25d ago

Man, I feel this. Those "in 24 hours" books are written to sell copies, not teach you how to think through a problem, and you paid the price with 60 hours you'll never get back. What was the moment you realized the book itself was broken, like did you catch a specific error in the code that made you stop trusting it?

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