Best place to learn Python fast?

Not sure, any recommendations?

I've been through most of them and honestly it comes down to what style you actually respond well to. If you want structure, the University of Helsinki MOOC (Python Programming 2014) is still basically perfect — they give you a real project with an automated grader that catches edge cases. It feels like a proper course rather than just watching videos.

The biggest mistake I see people make is finishing a tutorial and then not building anything for three weeks, so the syntax all leaks out of your head. My advice: spend two weeks on the MOOC, then immediately start one small project — something you'd actually use, like a script that cleans up your downloads folder or scrapes prices from a site you care about.

"Fast" is doing nothing to you here because it's undefined. Are we talking about fastest time-to-first-script, or fastest time-to-competent-engineer? Because those are fundamentally different and everyone conflates them.

If your goal is "fast as in I want a working script by Friday," then the answer isn't any course — it's ChatGPT with the right system prompt and 45 minutes of reading Python's official data structures docs (which you won't do, but that's what I mean). Everything else wastes your time.

If "fast" means competence-per-hour invested, then no tutorial is correct because the learning curve isn't linear — it has a massive plateau after about 20 hours where you feel like you aren't getting better while your brain is actually rewiring to recognize patterns. The best resource for that specific metric is build something non-trivial and break it repeatedly. Not "follow along with this tutorial" build — actual engineering work.

Also, the assumption in the entire thread that Python needs a "learning path" is probably wrong. There are 20 years of documentation online; what you actually need is a