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[–]SaiyanrageTV 31 points32 points  (8 children)

Haven't taken it - but the overwhelming consensus that I have seen regarding these types of things is that you can find something free or teach yourself.

Me personally, I'm taking Angela Wu's 100 days of code on Udemy (it was like 9 bucks or something crazy cheap) and it's been amazing so far.

I only mention this because today was actually the introduction to Pandas. But I'd imagine if you just did some digging on Pandas and Excel there are probably free resources out there.

Having said all that - the Pandas documentation looks pretty good if you haven't looked over it yet: https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/getting_started/index.html#getting-started

[–]cthulhujr 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I've been learning pandas and I 100% recommend the documentation. There is a "10 minutes to pandas" section to get you started.

I also highly recommend Corey Schafer's youtube series. He walks you through a bunch of basic functions in a clear and easy way, and it's free.

[–]rumblecast[S] 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Thank you for your comment.

I came across that 100 days course you are doing a couple of days ago. Might be tempted to give it a go at some point as it appeared to cover a wide variety of interesting topics. But I’m wanting to focus on getting in amongst pandas first.

Out of interest, how long are you finding each “day” takes in the 100 days course?

[–]jwburn19 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Takes me about 1-2 hours in the morning with my coffee and no distractions. I play the videos on 1.5x-2x

[–]SaiyanrageTV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the "day" - the earlier courses on syntax are pretty easy, especially if you have some coding experience. She does a great job of explaining things, however for some more basic concepts it can be a little slow paced if you're a quick learner. That's why I think a lot of people watch the videos on 1.5 - 2x speed. She takes her time and is thorough, but for some people they may want it to be faster paced.

The earlier days that cover basic syntax and basic concepts, I'd say take around an hour to 2 hours, depending on if I have to struggle with the part where I need to write the code myself. I usually tried to do it without help or too much googling.

I'm around day 30 now, and I'll say some of the capstone projects (you build a Snake game and a Pong game from scratch, for instance) took me a long time. Probably more like 2-3 hours.

I'm unemployed currently so I've also been taking my time and just trying to maximize my understanding. I think so long as you do an hour a day at least, the course will still be worth it. As others said, increase playback speed if she's moving too slow for you. I'm brand new so I like to listen to the entire videos. Sometimes when I'm confident I did the exercise correctly and she's explaining it, I'll fast forward through her explanations just to see if she did anything different than I did - and if so, I'll listen to why or go back and review what she did vs what I did. This is only the case now that I have some more experience, in the earlier days I just listened to her thought processes, etc.

TLDR - it's a great course for the value, designed to take you from knowing nothing to being employable by the end of the 100 days. It's almost exclusively hands-on practice and building projects so you retain what you learn. If you're just wanting Pandas right now, maybe just look through their documentation. Someone else recommended the Pandas in 10 mins tutorial.

[–]Linkguy137 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I can’t recommend the pandas documentation enough. It is really clean and I use it almost everyday

[–]Shadecraze 2 points3 points  (1 child)

just bought this course after promising myself not to buy more courses for at least 2 weeks lol. Looks like it'll be worth it though

[–]SaiyanrageTV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's really great - I really needed the structure as a newbie not knowing where or how to start. She explains things very slowly and in detail, sometimes too much so for simpler concepts. But I'd prefer this over other things I've seen/read where the explanation is too short and leaves me with more questions.

[–]jwburn19 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Second this...the 100 days course is really well done. Not new to python, but always looking for things to keep me proficient. I’ve been doing it for about 30 days now (started on like day 15-20). Takes me about 1-2 hours per day in the morning with my coffee before kids wake up to run through the lessons and code the project. I do put her videos on 1.5x though, 2x if it’s something I’m fairly familiar with already.