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I enrolled in the four years late, in early 2024. I knew the syntax had probably aged, that the UI in the videos was from a pre-ChatGPT world, and that "hero" status in tech is usually measured in years, not hours.

But you will become a hero in a different, more important sense.

Strings, lists, dictionaries, tuples. It’s easy. It’s fun. You feel smart. You start telling your friends, "I’m learning Python." You are Neo in the loading program, learning Kung Fu in seconds. I enrolled in the four years late, in early 2024

But I could sit down with a blank script and build something. A password generator. A web scraper for my favorite blog. A text-based RPG. More importantly, I could read other people’s code and understand what it was trying to do, even if I didn't know how .

That’s not a bug. That’s the feature. Let’s be real: no 30-hour video course can turn a complete beginner into a professional software engineer. If you go in expecting to emerge as a "hero" capable of deploying machine learning models or architecting microservices, you will be disappointed. Strings, lists, dictionaries, tuples

When a course doesn’t hand you a magic VS Code extension that auto-formats everything, you learn why indentation matters. When it doesn’t rely on the latest f-string debugging tricks, you learn to use print() like a surgeon uses a scalpel. The "2020" nature of the course strips away the scaffolding of modern convenience. It leaves you alone with Python—the raw, beautiful, logical beast itself.

Then you hit Object-Oriented Programming. Classes. self . Inheritance. Your brain hurts. You write a class that should work, but it throws an AttributeError . You watch the video twice. You still don’t get why __init__ is necessary. This is where 50% of people quit. This is the desert. It’s dry, it’s lonely, and you will doubt your entire career choice. You feel smart

But it’s also a trap.