I google to find out how to do something and I come up with answers some fractional value. Each time I then tweak my google search and look for the answer again.
These iterations feel like swings on a golf course.
Is this healthy and productive?
There are also some stacks that have better tooling and less magic, so you end up using the docs a lot less. A good IDE (with autocomplete and in-line docs) eliminates a lot of Google searches, for example.
What stack are you on and what is your experience level?
There's little auto-complete and the online docs are terse with few or no examples.
People say python is easy, but it seems like there's many packages/ways to do the same thing, which makes learning confusing. It's especially confusing trying to optimize/pretty up code. I've hit plenty of gotchas.
- more recently updated
- more total commits
- more Github stars
- more closed issues
- fewer stale issues (issues opened a long time ago, but not fixed)
I don't know much about Notebooks. This may not help at all, but people seem absolutely crazy about PyCharm: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/
When it comes to basics - those you pick up quickly and never google for them again.