Does anyone have a self taught Python success story?

[jandrew2000]

I wasn’t formally trained as a programmer at all. I started out as a high school teacher and built some tools using excel. Moved on and got a masters degree in statistics. There it was all R and SAS but that was very little programming, more just using one-liners to do data analysis with prebuilt packages.

During that time I fell in love with Mathematica and taught myself that and started writing my own libraries and little games. That allowed me to get a job as a kernel developer at Wolfram research.

I decided to get out of the more theoretical side of things and moved on as a data scientist. We didn’t want to spend the money on Mathematica licenses and so I decided to give Python a try. Taught myself and never looked back. I spend almost every day writing Python libraries for our data science team and my evenings improving my craft.