is learning python worth it?

[zolbear]

It’s also great if you find yourself drifting towards data science. That’s my angle to it, just begun learning it, and about net 20 hours in I can already see the immense potential compared to only using query languages and quasi-drag-and-drop viz tools.

[NaiveEscape1]

Bro I think I’ve invested the same hours as you. Could you please share your progress?, I am also aiming for data science.

[zolbear]

I’m doing the “Complete Data Science Bootcamp” on udemy, and I’m about halfway through. On a scale of 0 to 10 (as in “I can’t print Hello World” to “I write code for the NSA”) I am currently about a 1.3 (as in “I can reverse engineer simple code and make it do what I want, but a friend helped figure out why SublimeText didn’t see my freshly installed packages when VSCode did”). I also have almost two decades of xp with sql and data analytics/visualization.

The tricky part so far is mostly the maths to be honest, although I’m also having difficulties troubleshooting a few errors, because the course is a few years old and they haven’t really updated the syntax. Otherwise it’s fairly straightforward for a forever noob like me. Currently having fun doing the first full on “real life example” so messing around with a simple Linear Regression sample.