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Discussion on: I Want To Be A Programmer: How Do I Start?

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Josef Biehler

I don't think that Python is a good starting point. Maybe I do not know too much about it, but my experiences are that Pythons module system is crapy. I often had to fix those "Module not found" errors. This may of course be a result of less knowledge but this can be a stopper for beginners I think and frustrates beginners.

I am not sure if you explicitly omitted Udemy in the link area, but they have very good content, too. You just have to wait until they sell everything für 10-12$ which occurs at least at 300 of 365 days in the year xD

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Hadrian Hughes

I'm just getting into Python at the moment (I come from JavaScript land) and yeah you're right the module system is awful. But at a first glance I'd say it looks like a good language for beginners in spite of that. It has all the features a beginner needs to learn about but is more forgiving than a language like Java.