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All right, this is a big video.

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Now, these videos are going to be sprinkled throughout the course, their 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 and what a lot of people do when they get started, that is

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they don't have a clear path and don't 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 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 out, to try and learn every single thing, every single function, every single

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syntax, 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.

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I don't know, a thousand two hundred.

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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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is 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.

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But he can always Google things.

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And most 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, and this is really, really useful

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information, but you're not going to memorize every single thing about the language because there's

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a lot.

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This is the Python language, and then there's also the libraries, the standard libraries that we can

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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, 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.

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And there's 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 percent that gets used 80 percent of the time and all these smaller, more complicating

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things we're 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,

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oh, I can use tuples in Python.

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So your first of all, fundamental is this.

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Don't learn a language as if you're trying to get one hundred percent on 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.