**Beginners Question** What was the best recourse that helped you learn to write algos?

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**Beginners Question** What was the best recourse that helped you learn to write algos?

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I'm struggling to learn but I'm keen to do so.

Can you guys suggest the best way I can learn from your own experience.

Everything is so confusing to me but I don't want to give up

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Have you looked over the tutorials? https://www.quantopian.com/tutorials/getting-started.

Copy the notebooks and algorithms and run them. Play with them by modifying the code. If you get stuck try googling questions for python / pandas / numpy issues or search the forums for Quantopian specific questions.

Also search the forums for ' getting started' to see how others have learned.

One important word of caution when looking at the forums. Quantopian is constantly improving. Check the posting dates. Many methods before 2016 are outdated and advice, notebooks, algorithms may be misleading, so beware.

Good luck.

Like Dan mentioned Lectures, Tutorials and Help section accessible from the top menu are great places to start. Go through forums and look at algorithms that others have shared and try to play around with it by making some modifications. If you are new to Python programming might want to come upto speed on that. Post questions in the forums when in doubt and hope someone answers. Best of luck!

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