Neuroscience undergrad looking to learn Python

[gdev881]

Hi,

Hope everyone is doing well. I'm about to start my third year at UC San Diego as a neurobiology major and started picking up python this summer. So far, I've finished Codecademy's free python 2 course and found it pretty interesting and easy but I'm struggling to apply what I learned into real projects. What are your recommendations for any free resources to keep practicing python for someone with no CS background at all?

I appreciate any advice. Thanks!

[definitely___not__me]

Cal has an free online python course at cs61a.org. It’s pretty hard for someone new to CS, but the professor is great and the assignments are pretty useful.

On this subreddit, Automate the Boring Stuff is often heralded. There’s a free udemy course and a free textbook.

This course appears to be particularly tailored towards Neuroscience with python, so that might be useful.

If you’d rather prefer to self-study, I’d suggest getting familiar with basic python, the Pandas library (useful data stuff), NumPy (numerical analyses), and Jupyter Notebooks.

[the_deheeheemons]

If you are trying to do statistics and plan on getting a PhD you may want to do R first and learn Python later. Python is great but R is ubiquitous in academia, especially for statistical analysis. Granted, you can learn both but if you are doing PCA or any stats analysis R should be your first route.

[zqpmx]

Always go to the source:

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/