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@rafetoots

#Python's a great choice to start learning "real" #programming. The tutorial in the documentation is good to go through, though it's often overlooked (why? dunno).

Biggest piece of advice would be: don't get overwhelmed. Python the language has grown a lot over the decades, and you don't need to learn all of its advanced features, much less use them in every program -- especially the ones you're writing while trying to learn it.

There will always be time later to learn where to use a generator expression instead of explicitly constructing a sequence, or the intimate details of complex type annotations, etc.

Before the first #person ever to be #overwhelmed do you think he or she was #whelmed? WTF would that be like?

Oh! I love these berries! Grock! Come taste these! They are whelming!

Then Grock, who had never even tasted a single berry in his whole 5 years, tastes the berries. 5 seconds later.... Ohhh these are "overwhelming"!.... Grock! What the living rocks is overwhelming! ... Grock responds... I am overwhelmed!... WTF stop making shit up Grock.

And that was the origin or the word.