My first Python script took 3 days to write but now I can do it in 20 minutes

I spent last month building a basic script to sort my photos by date, and it was a total mess of googling and trial and error. After finishing a free online course that focused on functions and loops, I rewrote it from scratch in under half an hour. Do you think structured learning is better than just trying to build something right away?

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bennett.jana1d ago

Took me weeks to fix one bug, @dianahayes. Learning the basics first saves so much time.

dianahayes1d ago

Wait, you spent a whole month on that first script?

logan_young291d ago

Remember spending three days trying to get a single line of CSS to work right. The whole page would just fall apart if I looked at it wrong. That month felt like a constant loop of writing something, breaking everything, and starting over. Honestly, the final script was maybe ten lines different from the first draft.