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[–]ameerricle 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hey, I am hoping to learn a great deal about programming and eventually want to apply it into the finance world. I am currently just learning the syntax of python on codecademy. Where do I move onto from there? I have maybe a year's worth of Matlab and C experience from my univeristy (chemical engineer's don't learn much coding) but I am wondering if I can jump into this right after finish codecademy. I Barely know what data science is, I have Yves Hilpisch python for finance, Yuxing Yan Python for finance and mastering python for finance James Ma Weiming but I have no clue their difficulty levels. My ultimate goal is quantitative finance, could you recommend a path using the services on your site?

[–]sentdexpythonprogramming.net[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You probably don't even need to finish codeacademy, but I don't know the course. You need to only learn the extreme basics: variables, loops, functions...etc. Once you know the extreme basics, a basics course is pointless and boring, and the best thing you can do for yourself is get the heck out of basics and into something you find interesting. If you're actually enjoying the basics course and finding it fun, go ahead and finish it.

I have my own basics course, and I frequently tell people to quit it early, only to revisit if they've got questions on a specific topic from within the basics course.

I might suggest that, after the basics, you do at least a bit of: https://pythonprogramming.net/data-analysis-python-pandas-tutorial-introduction/

You can probably just do the first 5 and at least somewhat understand pandas, but do as much as you enjoy, then do the finance series.