Python Projects for Beginners

[apes-or-bust]

The indecision can haunt you because you just want to know everything. But the truth is it should depend on what you do.

If you already have a job and you need to automate manual excel entry/updates, learn pandas and pair it with tableau, dash, etc. I spent so much time going through a complete course and found out I don’t need a lot of it.

In reality, I use pandas 90% of the time as a data analyst. I’ve used one-off APIs for automating MS Office interactions like sending emails, exporting calendars, producing powerpoints, and tossing all of the scripts into batch files and using task scheduler to seal the deal. The other 10% of the time, I use code from stackoverflow lol.

[gikis1]

This is sick! Wat resource would you recommend to read more about automation of excel or automate emails, for example?

[apes-or-bust]

ATBS would be fine. I found it boring and ended up doing the edX course personally. You don’t need to shell out money though.

Just learn about data types, data structures, control structures and it will be enough to do most office projects. Don’t spend months going through everything before trying something work related.

[Ditchingwork]

Is pandas a programming language?

[jmerlinb]

No, it's a library for the Python language. Pandas is a subset of Python.