If you have never programmed before I wouldn't care about the fastest, you risk learning nothing fast. Avoid any hacks, shortcuts or methods more appropriate f

If you have never programmed before I wouldn't care about the fastest, you risk learning nothing fast. Avoid any hacks, shortcuts or methods more appropriate for less practical subjects. Find a good and definitely not concise book or a good MOOC that explains all the basic concepts with lots of examples you can try in a Jupyter notebook. The more you code the more you learn.