Break Free from Tutorial Hell: Practical Tips from Sarah Reichelt at PyCon AU 2025 🚀

(Sarah Reichelt) When you're learning to code, no matter what the language, you learn small components: write a function to do something, create a class to do other things, add a user interface component and so on.

Then you get out into the real world and there's nobody telling you what components to write. You know how to code, but you don't know how to develop. So you do more courses and tutorials, watch more videos and read more documentation. But you still don't know how to take that extra step and apply your knowledge to develop an entire project. You're stuck in **tutorial hell**!

I'm going to go beyond the code and show you how to design, structure, and document your projects. I'll also show you how you can use AI to help.

These problems and their solutions will apply to every language and development environment you'll use through your career, whether or not you're using Python. By the end, I hope I will have given you some tools to help you escape from tutorial hell and start developing your own projects.

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Sat Sep 13 14:10:00 2025 at Ballroom 1