DarkViolet.ai

🐍 Python: Learning Fundamentals Still Matters in the Age of AI

(01:57) 🐍 Python: Learning Fundamentals Still Matters in the Age of AI

Programming is about more than just writing code. It's also about rewiring how you think. When you learn to break down problems systematically, debug step by step, and organize your thoughts logically, something interesting happens: these skills start showing up everywhere else in your life. Our comprehensive Python course takes complete beginners through 160 lessons complete with extensive lesson content thoroughly covering all concepts in great detail accompanied by syntax-highlighted examples that can be copied and tinkered with by just the click of a button, interactive activities to gauge comprehension, and 160 Google Colab notebooks that are as filled with content as the lessons themselves for hands-on practice and numerous tasks for students, building not just technical chops but the kind of analytical thinking that's becoming essential in our data-driven world. In our latest video, we dive into Python variables through practice and testing. While AI coding assistants are getting scary good at writing code, there's never been a more important time to actually understand what's happening under the hood. The students who can read every line, spot when AI gets creative with logic, and think computationally, they won't just be using these tools, they're going to lead with them. The future belongs to people who can think like programmers, whether they're directing AI or writing code the old-fashioned way. Sometimes the best preparation for an AI-powered future is understanding exactly how the fundamentals work. It's funny how going deeper often turns out to be the most practical move.

DarkViolet.ai

New Learn with Lumi educational feature! Listen while you read along!

(01:39) New Learn with Lumi educational feature! Listen while you read along!

I have a new feature that I am wildly excited about it and must share! (You can tell from the video that I have been coding hardcore over the holiday weekend. Please excuse.) OK, let's get to the goods! Do many of you use the built-in Mac OS speak-selection tool? For accessibility, clearly, it is necessary. But also for educational purposes, I cannot say enough about the benefits of multi-modal educational intake and comprehension. I believe that reading and hearing text at the same time is second only to writing out text as a way to help the content really connect with the consciousness. And the way my family and I use Learn with Lumi lesson content is generally taking turns reading aloud, pausing to discuss, and when our little voices get tired, we use the Mac OS speak-selection tool. But the system itself is a bit grouchy, and honestly far from perfect. If you have ever tried to make it slightly faster, you quickly find out that the next increment up is so fast that the voices are unintelligible. So yesterday, I wondered: "Could it be that Mac let's you control that from the browser itself?!?!" At first I thought that would be too good to be true! But it isn't! They do! So I created this special little play/listen controller that pops up if Learn with Lumi detects that you are on Mac OS and it selects the entire lesson content for you and reads it aloud to you. Along with our auto-scroll feature, it is such a great tool for helping the material really get into our brains! I will be working out how I can implement something similar on windows next. But I was so excited about this step forward that I had to share. The educational benefit is so significant!