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Resources for Learning Python

Part 1 : Core Python

1.1 : Learn

There are tons of resources for learning Python. Here are a few

• Start with this one : Byte of Python - FREE, very good intro book
• Then try this : Dive into python: FREE, more detailed good 2nd book
• Learn Python3 the hard way
• Google python class - popular online class

1.2 - Practice, Practice and Practice

The best way to get comfortable in a language is to practice.
Try the following exercises.
Remember, you can do them in any order..there is no sequence to follow

• Try these exercises : https://github.com/elephantscale/learning-coding – we have created this to learn a language quickly
• Python cookbook— very comprehensive code snippets
• w3 python exercises– very comprehensive
• Python module of the week
• https://github.com/karan/Projects
• http://www.practicepython.org/
• http://www.itmaybeahack.com/homepage/books/python.html
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3951613/learning-python-exercise
• What Python trick you like
• Python exercises – http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html
• Intermediate Python projects

1.3 - Check List

Be comfortable in

• Jupyter notebooks
• Defining variables (exercise)
• if else, for , while loops (exercise)
• String (exercises)
• utilities, random ..etc (exercise)
• Collections (list exercise, map exercise, set exercise)
• Comprehensions (exercise)
• Date & Time (exercise)
• lambdas and functions (exercise)

Optional, nice to know

• Functional programming (exercise)
• regex (exercise)

Part 2 - Data Manipulation in Python

Here we will focus on Numpy and Pandas packages

2.1 - Numpy Resources

• https://www.machinelearningplus.com/python/numpy-tutorial-part1-array-python-examples/
• https://www.dataquest.io/blog/numpy-tutorial-python/
• https://www.tutorialspoint.com/numpy
• https://cs231n.github.io/python-numpy-tutorial/

2.2 - Pandas Resources

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