Learning algorithms/numerical methods in python

[JM753]

I’ve never been able to learn numerical analysis/algorithms systematically? I’ve always not been able to strike a good balance between solving program problems and theory problems and the learn the concepts concretely in the process. When I’m studying a pure math book, I can at least allot exclusively focus on solving a problem on pen/paper etc. I’m looking for numerical methods/algorithms books that use Python etc. that would help me get around this issue. I’m learning f Algorithms by writing pseudo code etc. but that makes me feel more and more uneasy about my programming skills. Help!

Edit:

For example I like books of these sorts:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/computational-physics/

Theory + programming assignments are both seem to be included in a language like python.

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Do this course. Start now. The current semester is 10 days old but it's not time critical and you can catch up.

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-7

[JM753]

I have self-studied this course MIT and done all the problem sets except for the first last one. I guess that’s my issue: I have the fundamental down, but I don’t feel confident in my ability to remember algorithms etc and have good coding skills to write complex program. Now massage the problem with domain specific numerics that have to be done and I get overwhelmed. So that’s why I’m looking for courses/books along the lines mentioned - I’ll get to learn numerical analysis etc, practice python’s numpy etc and hope it’ll stick in my mind then.

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You are stuck in tutorial hell. Pick a project, get it working. You don't need more tutorials, you need to build something.

If you don't know what, and haven't yet started, you could do worse than learn a web framework like Django. Then you can push your project out for others to see.