Started learning Python - real applications?

Yella Fella · 16 Jun 2021 at 14:56

Hey all,

Started my journey in doing Python, learning about cleaning data and what not for analysis. I want delve more into web site searching and things like... how do people go about creating stuff that checks availability on site like hotels/airbnb/stock.

I want to understand the concepts of it, are they literally just crawling links direct to the product/item and checking parameters or using some sort of API? What guides/tutorials have you done that points to real life application. I like to break down existing code if it exists to understand the elements.

Another thing I wanted to learn is reading the stock/crypto charts for instance. I know you have markers for giving you an alarm when a certain criteria hits but would like to understand and make something my own.

Automation is something I want to get more into. Many thanks.

Yella Fella · 16 Jun 2021 at 17:43

I have UDEMY courses online as well... will check this out too. Thanks.

Yella Fella · 17 Jun 2021 at 10:14

I dabbled in JavaScript long time ago and before that Turbo Pascal back in the hay days. Any recommended YouTubers for this topic that you've seen? Learning automation and understand elements.

Yella Fella · 20 Jun 2021 at 12:02

I know the very basics as they always teach you using numbers and calculations. I tend to like looking at code (still basic sense) and then playing about and understanding how it works. Those that use notes in the code also help with learning.

Yella Fella · 20 Jun 2021 at 12:03

radderfire said:
It might be worth taking a look at the Bitcoin project, because whilst Bitcoin Core itself is written in C++, I think a lot of python is also used for some aspects of the project, so you would probably find some experienced python developers there:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

I've heard of this site. Trying to understand how it works as there's a lot of, to me, information within folders etc.

Yella Fella · 21 Jun 2021 at 09:09

radderfire said:
Yes it is certainly not beginner level, and I did think about that when mentioning it. However, you seem to have an interest in crypto, and I expect there will be some interesting examples of Python. If you haven't already, it's worth learning GitHub, this is a core programming skill now:

http://webref.eu/git-notes.php

Thank you. I need to check what other forums/resources that are helpful to newbies with Python as well.