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All right.

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This is a big video.

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Now, these videos are going to be sprinkled throughout the course.

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They're developer fundamentals video.

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These are the topics that are going to be super, super short, but important because as a beginner,

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it's hard to learn these things because you don't know what you don't know.

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So what I'm going to try and do in these developer fundamentals is tell you, well, how to avoid the

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mistakes that I made when I got started.

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And what a lot of people do when they get started, that is, they don't have a clear path and don't

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understand what the most efficient way to do things is.

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So with developer fundamentals, we're going to talk about key things to make you first of all, efficient

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in learning Python, but also make you a programmer that is really, really good and that companies

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want.

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So what is this first developer fundamental.

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It's.

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Don't read the dictionary.

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What does that mean?

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Well, when you're learning a language such as Python, you're going to have a tendency, especially

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when you're starting up to try and learn every single thing, every single function, every single syntax,

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every single trick.

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It's almost like you're trying to learn a language by reading a dictionary from page one all the way

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to page, I don't know, 1200.

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But that's now how things work.

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As a matter of fact, when I work with different programming languages, I don't know all the syntax,

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I don't know all the methods and functions.

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And what a lot of developers do is not necessarily memorize everything, just like you would every single

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word in a dictionary.

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Instead you understand what exists and what you can use, but you can always Google things and most

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of the time developers are Googling things, no matter how experienced they are.

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For example, if we go to the Python documentation here.

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We can go through everything, right?

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I can go through the language reference and read through everything.

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And this is really, really useful information.

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But you're not going to memorize every single thing about the language because there's a lot.

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This is the Python language.

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And then there's also the libraries, the standard libraries that we can use.

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And if you sit through here and just read everything in here, well, you're not going to memorize anything.

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In order for you to actually learn Python, you have to use the language and you'll notice that some

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things are used a lot more than others.

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Just like in human languages.

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Like when you learn English, there's really difficult words that don't get used that often, and there's

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words like and the or or apple that get used very often.

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So we're going to learn the language in a way that makes sense, in a way that's efficient, where we

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focus on the 20% that gets used 80% of the time and all these smaller, more complicating things we're

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going to cover, but we're not going to cover one by one from start to finish.

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We're going to jump around the idea being that when you learn a programming language, you're just using

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these concepts and slowly you're learning what's out there so that when you have a problem, you can

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identify it.

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And remember, oh, I think Python has a path lib library that I can use or perhaps remember that oh

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I can use tuples in Python.

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So your first developer fundamental is this don't learn a language as if you're trying to get 100% on

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a test.

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We're going to learn a language by actually using it, focusing on the things that actually matter.

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All right, that's enough talking for me.

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I'll see you in the next video.

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Bye bye.