30 Days of Python
Pretty good curriculum, I’m not sold on MongoDB, I’d prefer someone with Postgres or SQLite experience so they can be immediately useful on a project, but it’s better than nothing, which would be even worse.<p>There’s a rather deep rabbit hole really about figuring out what the best beginner curriculum should look like, because if the diversity of the applicability of Python. They might be doing to a data science role, a sysadmin role, an infosec role, an educational role, you just never know. I think it’d be prohibitively difficult to unify these tracks, and might even play a role in the perceived difficulty for a lot of people coming to computer work from zero programming experience.<p>Someday, I’d like to see some sort of AI platform that can gauge a users intuition about the concepts on the whiteboard and tailor lessons to be impressed upon that user the best way. I’d teach a 30yo with ten years of Excel munging experience different than I’d teach a 20yo with no CS education at all besides video games. That could be automated to great benefit, imo.