that would be great. Can you address me to some resource? All I can find are just "generic" courses for beginners that cover many different topics, meanwhile I'd love if I could just learn those specific tasks.
Programming isn't hard to learn, some people get it faster than others but everyone can get started rather quickly, the problem here is that you will have to understand the basics sooner or later. Of course, you can start by following some tutorial dedicated to scraping but it will be way too overwhelming if you have zero programming experience. It's like jumping into an ocean of knowledge built upon other knowledge built upon other knowledge that will confuse you, bore you and make you quit too early.
Dedicate about 14 hours to learning basics, you can follow a written course, an interactive course, a YouTube series or whatever else you think works best for you. Then, most importantly, top it off by writing programs on your own. Practicing your knowledge is extremely important. Here's an idea list with related topics:
1. Make a
simple calculator which will cover a wide range of basics:
- Variables
- Operators
- Datatypes
- Functions
- Input/Output
- Working with standard libraries
2. Make a simple game, for example,
snake using an imported library like
pygame:
- Loops
- Classes
- Different kinds of Input/Output
- Managing external modules/packages/libraries
3. Make your first project. At this point you can start with your first scraping program just don't get too ambitious.
This make seem like a lot but I'd say that a higher education level course will cover basics and the first simple solo project in about 2 weeks, so maybe 20 hours. The simple game project is going to take quite a few hours unless you follow some tutorial step-by-step but then you'd have to experiment on your own on improving the game later so that you can familizarize yourself with everything that was taught.
