So I have to do this python web dev module and ended up just paying some dude on fiverr to finish my project + ChatGPT here and there because I had no idea what I'm doing. I plan on learning web development regardless though because I'll likely be working around lots of web devs, so I wanna get into it too.

Thing is, my analytical skills are pretty chit, so I'm having a really hard time understanding how all the different pieces of code tie together to create a working application, etc. Was always bad at math too.

Is it a waste of time for me to try and learn web development or is it something one could learn with a little more effort compared to someone who just gets it naturally?

Just do it bebe.

Second one. Pretty much everybody can get a decent level of competency.

Happy to help if you have questions btw (I have a b.s./m.s. in CS and work as a software engineer).

IT HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER!

Why?

Because of chatGPT, it's absolutely crazy. Look up some videos on youtube about coding and chatGPT.

Better than any teacher you could imagine.

I tried using ChatGPT and still ended up paying some dude to finish my project because the AI will only give you junks of code and I couldn't really piece everything together.

really based. might actually get back to you later in that case.

Lol, learn to work with chatGPT first bro, it gives more than junks of code. Go watch some videos about it.

for this task I had to finish a flask application that included like 4 different files and they all referred to each other in their code and stuff. I tried, but I didn't get ChatGPT to do everything without modifying the code that was already given from the prof and that we weren't allowed to change.

some dude who has no idea about coding isn't gonna just suddenly start coding complex systems using ChatGPT. you still have to know what different pieces of code do and how they tie together, etc.

well, if you have to ask...

The most important thing about learning to code is learning coding logic and learning what each object does.

There are millions of objects. The key is to find out why you want to code and look at the related objects so that you don't waste time on learning unrelated objects.

Wonderin the same but im pretty patient and obsessed with sht im interested in and very analytical
where to start pls?
is it worth to take an online college course for software engineering ?

Patience/obsession are definitely good qualities to have (figure analytical is obvious). Lot of SE work is debugging, and that requires a good amount of bashing your head against things repeatedly.I'd opt for something like this course. Python is a nice language choice since it's easier to get started with (requires learning fewer keywords), and the course seems to cover some key computer science concepts. Learning those concepts will give you a good idea of how you like the field as a whole and some insight into how the problems to solve feel. It is a pretty different way of thinking. Shocked me freshman year, and I've been a math guy for as long as I can remember.

Something more web dev-oriented imo involves so much knowledge-learning (just a lot of concepts/keywords/etc. to memorize) that you won't get as much of a feel for working with code. Would also lean towards a "computer science"-oriented course rather than a "software engineering"-oriented course (at least for starters) for similar reasons - you just won't get into the style of thinking in code as quickly.

https://www.edx.org/course/introduct...?index=product

Coding really isn't as hard as smug arse sniffing programmers like to make it out to be, just gotta be passionate about it otherwise you're gonna hate working as a developer

It's not for everyone.

Most coding classes have higher than 50% failure rates for a reason