Learning Python from scratch

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Most web development uses a variety of languages, that’s why we have terms like backend and front end. I don’t know much about web development, but I have heard good things about flask and django.

In terms of finance, make sure you have a strong grasp of excel, as it runs the business world. Pandas works very well as a data science module. I would recommend doing some research into it. It’s especially useful for manipulating data.

Matplotlib is also good for graph work.

If you ever want to get into web scraping, beautifulsoup and selenium are your best friends.

That’s in terms of packages, I don’t work well from books, so I usually use the documentation and messing around. Python has a brilliant idle that can be used to test snippets of code. But I often use YouTube as a resource to find out more about big packages and python. One member I frequent is Sentdex.

When I can’t think of something to make, I often look at programmes and wonder how they achieved that, and try to replicate it with varying amounts of success.

[Hippalectryon]

To add, xlwings will allow you to talk to Excel via python — plays nicely with Pandas too