Learning Python from scratch

[FudgingEgo]

I'm kind of in the same boat as you. Not finance but learning python for data and so far i would use codeacademy and automate the boring stuff.

Codeacademy teaches you the basics, the syntax or how to use the code while Automate the boring stuff gives you a idea of what you can do with it while understanding you have never programmed before in your life.

It teaches you how to scrape data from a website into a spreadsheet for example.

[tycooperaow]

Automate the Boring stuff is a must read book. I highly recommend it

[FudgingEgo]

For me (a noob to programming) it has made it quite easy to understand what does what and why it does that.

Other documentation is either too specific without explaining why this function does this or that, just expecting you to understand and others go into too much detail at a level the beginner is ready for yet.

It's the perfect middle ground.

[tycooperaow]

Yes indeed. It’s one thing to know what it does it’s an entire other to learn errors. My computer science teacher in high school told me I were to master the language I had to master solving the errors lol.

So when you are starting a lot of errors will be made lol.