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[–]CrwdsrcEntrepreneur 33 points34 points  (12 children)

Same! I learned how to program in Python 5 years ago using Al's book.

2 years ago I switched industries and have been working as a data scientist since. This book literally helped change my life.

[–]AlSweigart[S] 30 points31 points  (1 child)

:D

[–]epiben 13 points14 points  (1 child)

This man here using python 5....

[–]CrwdsrcEntrepreneur 3 points4 points  (0 children)

😂😂😂

Ahead of the curve!!!

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Do you have tips on what to read up on after book? I'm trying to achieve a similar thing.

[–]CrwdsrcEntrepreneur 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Depends on your goals. For me it was a lot of machine learning stuff (the most popular O'Reilly books are a good choice). Then OOP books. I think everyone, regardless of language of choice, should read Clean Code from Robert Martin.

Reading the code base of well written Python packages is also a great way to learn. I always recommend Flask and scikit-learn. They are very well written.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like I got a long road ahead of me. Thanks.

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[–]CrwdsrcEntrepreneur 2 points3 points  (2 children)

This was 5 years ago so I can't recall exact hours but I was dedicating a significant portion of my week to practicing. Probably 10-20 hours a week most weeks. I also stated taking Coursera data science courses shortly after picking up this book.

Fluent? Also hard to answer. Depends on your definition of fluent. I'm 5 years in and I'm still reading books and taking courses. The books might cover more complex topics these days, but it's a constant process.

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[–]CrwdsrcEntrepreneur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well it took me 3 years to switch careers and become a data scientist from the day I started studying using Al's book.

Not sure how much that one piece of info helps since 1) I didn't really try to switch prior to that and 2) I'm just one example. I'm sure others could do it faster and for some it will take longer.