🗺️ You're a programmer. Now what?

Stop and look back for a second. You started this path knowing nothing about computers. Now you've written programs that talk, decide, repeat, remember, and even read minds. That word you might hesitate to use about yourself — programmer — you've earned it. Programmers aren't people who know everything; they're people who write programs. You do.

Here's your map from this point — three roads, all open, all free:

🐛 PyDebug: See Python Under the Hood — the companion course. 22 topics that replay Python in slow motion, line by line, variable by variable: how loops really spin, how functions stack, what a traceback is telling you. Go here when you want to understand deeply — it will also carry you far beyond this course, into generators, decorators, and classes.

🐍 The Playground — a full Python editor with no instructions and no goals. This is where real learning compounds: pick something tiny YOU want (a tip calculator, a password maker, a countdown timer) and build it. Getting stuck and unstuck is the actual skill.

🧩 The Diagram Builder — design programs as flowcharts and step through them, great for planning before you code.

And the road ahead on this academy: Algo Academy (data structures & algorithms, taught by watching them run) and ML Academy (machine learning fundamentals) are live — the roadmap on the homepage always shows the current state. Your progress here is saved; a free account keeps it on every device.

One last thing, from the person who built this site: I struggled with programming for years and nobody handed me a map. This academy is the map I wish I'd had. If it helped you — tell someone who's where you were.