I feel like for 8 kyu and using them as practice for getting more comfortable with the basic interations of loops, dicts, tuples, lists, strings, and integers is great!

I plan use 8 kyu and up excersies in order to learn new languages. After I have gotten farther along with python I plan to start learning Rust next starting at the beginning.

There is no reason to reinvent the wheel. Thats one of the main aspects why python is such a strong programming language.

Creating algorithm is not derp it's a fun. This is just googling for some functions. :-)

I feel the same way