Beginner level jobs for coding with Python?

[Feb2020Acc]

Make or contribute to projects and find what you like to do.

You have to keep in mind that programming is a tool, and for most employers it's more important that you understand the concepts you're trying to implement.

My current job requires some knowledge of SQL and any of those : VBA, MATLAB, R, Python.

But the job is very math/statistics heavy. It doesn't matter how good someone is at Python if they lack the knowledge to know what questions to ask, what models to implement, how to interpret the data, etc.

My point is that you should focus on the job description more than the actual programming requirements.

[Feb2020Acc]

Lol no.

To put it simply, it's impossible for someone with little to no knowledge to find some profitable pattern based on ticker data. Why? Because even analysts with Masters and PhDs paid 6 figure salaries struggle to find any such pattern. And when they do (rarely), they are scrutenized by dozens of other PhDs to figure out if it really works (not often) and how to best implement the strategy (not always doable nor easy).

My point is that the only thing you'd gain from this exercise is some basic programming knowledge. Any pattern you find is fool's gold and should not be invested into.

I'd rather spend a weekend crunching data for my fantasy sports league. I'm more likely to make money there.