If You Can Cook You Can Code - Learn Python

Learn how to program with Python using the metaphors of how cooking and restaurants work.

Have you decided to learn Python as your first programming language? Or learning Python for a brand spanking new job? Or heard that Python is of the best modern languages to learn?

If so, you are heading in the right direction. Python is an brilliantly powerful language and that can be used in any situation. That is why I selected Python as the first work in the "If You Can Cook, You Can Code" Series.

Are you a beginner to programming? If so, here's why this work is different (otherwise, skip down a bit)....

Plenty of courses that teach an introduction to Python are not aimed at first time programmers. In fact, most of them are not. In lieu, they are aimed at students who have already programmed in other languages and need to learn Python.

The issue is that in the event you are beginning out, you won't understand plenty of the terminology used, and plenty of the ideas that the teacher refers to won't make sense.

Why?

Because programming is not skill, but.

The first is learning how to solve issues abstractly, by breaking them down in to bite sized pieces that a computer can solve.

The second is figuring out how to tell the computer to solve these bite sized issues using the programming language you have selected.

Here's the thing...almost any issue can be solved in any programming language. The reason people pick language over another is because in language you can get the same issue solved in 1/10th of the lines of code. Why write 1000 lines of code in language in the event you can solve the same issue in 120 lines of code in another?

This is a massive reason why people pick Python and other modern, high level languages.

it is like telling somebody "make some chocolate chip cookies" versus giving them step by step instructions. The former is a high level command, the latter is more low level.

How does cooking come in to play?

Well, the cooking metaphor starts with the recipe. It turns out, if you have ever written a recipe, you are already a programmer. A recipe is a program, usually 20-40 lines long, that tells anyone how to generate some food item.

In each recipe, you have raw ingredients and you have a preparation, which tells the chef how to mix and transform the ingredients in to the final result (which is often shown as a picture in the top right corner of the recipe).

You'll learn Python quickly by understanding information as your raw ingredients, and computer algorithms (aka functions or methods) as the preparation in a recipe.

This work is different from any other kind of programming work out there. Everything you'll listen to is in plain english and explained with concrete cooking metaphors. That means you'll get each new idea the first time around in lieu of the fifth.

I am a self taught programmer. I do know what it is like to read books, go through courses and literally feel like you spend hours and didn't learn a thing. I created this work series to provide an alternative to the current programming books and courses out there, and I hope you enjoy it.

Keep in mind, this work is not the content, it is also about the discussion section. In the event you have any questions or something doesn't make sense, all you need to do is ask and you'll receive a personal response from me (and plenty of cooking references/metaphors)

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