to implement this in algorithmic way, by not using any python inbuilt function . This can be implemented as
def find_pos(string,word):
for i in range(len(string) - len(word)+1):
if string[i:i+len(word)] == word:
return i
return 'Not Found'
string = "the dude is a cool dude"
word = 'dude1'
print(find_pos(string,word))
# output 4