We All Make Mistakes: Learn from them, Grow from them.

Learn how real developers grow by making mistakes, mastering Python through active and passive learning, and turning challenges into coding confidence.

The title sums up this short read today. It’s true, we all constantly make mistakes and I am no exception. What defines us is how we learn from them and how we grow from them going forward.

I get asked all the time by my students, how did I learn all this? How did I learn Python and get good at it. My answer to them is often the same, I got good by making countless mistakes.

To this day, I still make mistakes all the time. Embarrassingly, sometimes I don’t catch these mistakes until I put it out into the real world. This could be my code, my articles, or my videos. I made a silly mistake the other day, that sparked this article.

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Once it’s out there in the real world for people to see and critique, there is nothing I can do. It’s there for people to see. I’m not going to delete my code or my posts, no.

I am going to learn from them, I am going to learn from others to grow into the developer and person I aim to become.

When we start down the route as a developer, we need to accept that as a developer, we are knowingly entering a field that is a never ending learning journey. You are never going to wake up one day and say “Finally, I’ve mastered Python. I know everything there is to know”.

Nope, that’s not going to happen. And if you do think that then chances are you are not the developer you thought you were. We as people learn through different channels.

We all learn differently and we all make mistakes. I may spend countless hours trying to learn a new topic and other times I rush through the topic, write some code, only to realize it is wrong or slightly off. It’s in moments like these that I often learn the most.

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