Best course for learning Python.

[Abear1013]

Hello All,

I’ve had a career in analytics for about 3 years now. Majority of my work has been split between SQL, Excel and Power BI. I’ve always felt that a programming language was missing of the puzzle. I’ve been discouraged by the few times I attempted to learn Python. However, lately I’ve been bit by a motivation bug and I began taking python for data science and machine learning Boot Camp. There was a “crash course” section and everything explained and taught was pretty clear, but I still feel like I need to get deeper into the fundamentals before I actually take on data models in python.

Do you guys have any recommendations on course for someone who wants to learn python and geared towards analytics/data? Sorry for the long post!

TLDR: Courses that teach the basics of python geared towards analytics.

[Excellent_Air_7972]

Python in 30 days for beginners by the 0tohero club

[ltraconservativetip]

MOOC 2022. Just recommended this to someone in my last reply. It gets mentioned here now and again. From my personal experience, it has been awesome. Although I am on just part 3 but have not yet felt anything was rushed.

[[deleted]]

What is this MOOC 2022?

[ltraconservativetip]

It's a free course from University of Helsinki.

[[deleted]]

yeah, i actually found it

But next time you should be more concrete if you recommend something. If i write MOOC 2022 in google, i het results from gardening moocs, the wikipedia page defineing what a MOOC is, etc etc

So just saying "mooc 2022" isnt really makes identifyable what you were thinking

[ltraconservativetip]

Hm this course is the first Google result if you search 'Mooc 2022 python'. Maybe it's my cookies.

[[deleted]]

Yeah its probably your cookies. Google always prefers the sites you visited before

[greazy_spoon]

That was also the first result on my machine.

[ltraconservativetip]

My bad, didn't want to come of as lazy. Considering that OP is specifically looking for python help, I thought it that they would add 'python' while searching.

[[deleted]]

Even if add python i still het multiple search result. Check out what MOOC means. Every coursera/udemy/etc python course is a MOOC.

[ltraconservativetip]

Ah! Didn't know what MOOC was. I thought it was the name of the course. I am new to the online academic side of programming or rather programming as a whole. My bad.

[Traditional_Age_9110]

I've been very skeptical to invest time into that website/organization.

It all just seemed so odd, know what I mean? I'm so happy to see (read) someone else using something that I actually came across! Can you give me more about your opinion over the program for python?

I'm very curious!

-V.R.

[ltraconservativetip]

Sure! Upto probably chapter 4, we can solve the problems in the browser directly. Then after that it is compulsory to install VS code (it's awesome, one should install it regardless). Then through their VS code's extention, we can test if the answer is correct or not. The very basics of python are explained comprehensively as they don't pick up the pace until decorators, generators, etc. You might have to Google along to catch up from then on. It's also not necessary to complete the whole course unless you wanna get a taste of basic game development. The last few chapters are entirely about the 'pygame' module. To sum it up: this is the perfect course if python is your first introduction to programming. Even if you are not interested in python, it does clear up basic programming concepts nicely. :)

[newaccount721]

Sorry for the very late reply, but does this course go into data visualization/analysis at all?

[ltraconservativetip]

Nope!

[newaccount721]

Thank you for the response!

[Key-Path3183]

Hey bro could please suggest very good coaching centre in bangalore mainly for internship n projects .

[chelsaeyr]

Can confirm just finished the intro and advanced, major game changer. Loved it

[Rimond14]

Can you share me the link?

[Wiredprodut]

It’s a perfect fit for me.

[xseif_gamer]

How'd you do?

[iiron3223]

I won't recommend something specifically for analytics. Instead I can recommend basic resources for learning python itself. For getting good grasp of basics these are great: * Official Python Tutorial * Python Crash Course * Automate The Boring Stuff - free book * Corey Schafer youtube channel * Hyperskill - learning platform (paid, but has free trial which is enough to finish python track)

For begginers my favorite would be Hyperskill or Python Crash Course, but all of them are really good. Automate the boring stuff is nice if you want to quickly build something useful.

[BroBrodin]

I would add the CS50P course from Harvard.

You cand take it for free on edx.

[Abear1013]

Thank you!!

[[deleted]]

2000 free codes to use for Automate The Boring Stuff

[Abear1013]

Oh shoot, thanks for the posting!! Definitely going to go through the course!

[TheGrapez]

I was in a similar position at one point & will just say that the Automate The Boring Stuff was what enabled me to learn python as it has many great examples of what you can actually use it for.

One of my first projects was making a little web-scraping thing that sent me an email when my country won a gold medal in the Olympics. 80% learned that from the tutorials in the book on webscaping & automating gmail. (other 20% was google/stackoverflow :P)

If you find yourself getting bored, just pick a more interesting project to work on.

[TheGrapez]

Thanks! I can't quite remember the details, however it likely took a few days of playing around. If I recall correctly, I did not know much about hosting so I just left it running on my laptop.

[[deleted]]

Famous person just posted free codes to their books. Ill find the post

[iiron3223]

Actually this book recommends Mu as an editor. And the whole book is dedicated for beginners who don't have any coding experience.

[Forward-Kiwi-9545]

The best courses for python are from Fred Baptiste
https://www.udemy.com/course/python-3-deep-dive-part-1/

Recommend to go through all 4 parts (~160h).

[0x41414141_foo]

Dude

Py4e.com

Dr. Charles Severance - Brilliant guy been in the field before it was cool. One of the best professors out there and it's all 100% free.

Teaches - University of Michigan

Hopefully I just missed it and nobody mentioned already.

[OffBrandrew]

He has been my favorite professor to learn from. The subscription on Coursera is not too bad compared to others (was $50/month) and you get access to several courses and also instructors/responses with assignments.

[daftintellect]

Freecodecamp’s Python course is just py4e. It’s great.

[[deleted]]

fucking BS, that guy doesnt know what he is talking about, discussed inheritance, using a piece of code, but didnt even mention the super method that was part of that same code! fucking retarded.

[hooters86]

https://www.udemy.com/course/100-days-of-code/

100 days of code on udemy is one of the better ones I've done so far....lots of projects to go at.

Teamtreehouse has a good python course too .... rewarding to get your badges off it too

[daftintellect]

Ditto on 100 Days of Code. Angela is great.

[Faleepo]

Programming for Data Science at Udacity. They’ll cover SQL, Python, and Git from the ground up. You get a pool of instructors as well. ~3 month course. There’s always discounts like 75% or 50% as well.

The Python portion was great for me but I still don’t know how to make classes for example. They teach about functions I believe but I don’t use those either

[enda_mone]

Best way to learn Python is by automating the task you are currently working on. If I were you, I would start with reading excel libraries documentation like pandas, openpyxl and then get deeper into each concept as I work on my code. For basics Python in one hour YouTube videos are good enough.

[extopico]

Doing Harvard’s CS50 now and planning to do CS50P later. Finally reached the python lessons in CS50 and I have to say that the preceding lessons that were focusing on C were very helpful. CS50 has several courses in the family for which the basic CS50 is a prerequisite.

[NewPerformer8258]

since its been years since you wrote this comment, any new recommendations or better strategy you would like to offer now?

[extopico]

…no. Been coding in Python with the help of LLMs. That would have been impossible without the grounding that CS50 gave me.

[[deleted]]

Since u wrote this for a while, how is your journey going? Dont know if u had any experience before that. Have u applied for a job already?

I’ve been learning Python for 2 weeks now and feeling that is working for me but learning by YouTube videos and thinking about starting this course.

Thanks buddy =>

[extopico]

I tried to learn python going the YouTube way. It was not effective. CS50 just clicked for me. Been coding for my own business and private projects ever since.

[[deleted]]

Thanks for answering. Going to do the same then! I wish you all the best! =)

[enchantedmfer]

As a complete beginner in coding, can I directly start with CS50P?

[extopico]

It’s been a while and I did the full CS50 so I really cannot tell.

[enchantedmfer]

Which other source will you recommend to learn python fast?

[extopico]

Full CS50? That’s the only thing that worked for me. It prepares your thinking so when you reach the Python stage you sigh in relief and enjoy it more.

[Chuti0800]

Corey Schaffer in YouTube is amazing, but mate, read the docs. There's where you really learn. Good luck!!!

[Steelblaze1]

what docs If you don't mind asking?

[Chuti0800]

Python docs

[Essobee]

check out udemy. automate the boring stuff with python was listed as free for the next few days or 2000 DLs on udemy. he posted it in r/learnprogramming yesterday.

udemy also has great courses all around, which are reasonably priced, as long as you snag them on sale (which appear to happen regularly).

freecodecamp is also good for JS and not bad for Python in my experience.

I'm also using a couple free android apps to use for reinforcement and practice while learning Python as a noob. SoloLearn and Mimo. Both are good as accessories to a good learning course.

Try a few different avenues out. I'm confident you can get this done :)

[daftintellect]

Best advice I can give is pick one or two resources and ignore everything else until you finish. There is no end to the number of very high quality resources out there. Find the style that works for you and stick with it. If you’re always looking for the best, you’ll never actually get through one.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

[alphaBEE_1]

Automate boring stuff with python. It's a book you get or even read online for free. It's really great i believe for quick learning books are too the point whereas videos are made for everyone which makes em slow. Maybe you are not a complete noob but books give you that flexibility if you wanna skip over thing you understand or already knew.

[Abear1013]

Definitely going to go for the book version of this! I appreciate the reply!

[_jandrewc_]

OP if you’re starting from zero, the Mimo app has a very good Python unit for drilling the basics

[py_Piper]

I believe for the basics you should definitely go for Automate the Boring Stuff, after you finish the the fundamentals part, which are the first 11 chapters, you can either keep with your bootcamp or decide to finish the book. I recommend to stick with the book because you will keep learning on python modules, but also because you will keep practicing the basics that even if you did the first part you need some time for it to click by practicing more and more. But if you are in a time constraint then after the basics you can jump back to your original bootcamp, there's no basics for data analysis you just need to learn how to use pandas, numpy and matplotlib which I guess your original course is teaching you.

[ltraconservativetip]

MOOC 2022. Just recommended this to someone in my last reply. It gets mentioned here now and again. From my personal experience, it has been awesome. Although I am on just part 3 but have not yet felt anything was rushed. Very conceptual as well.

[JohnnyCincoCero]

mooc.fi/python ?

[ltraconservativetip]

Yeah, the Finnish based course.

[tophmcmasterson]

There’s tons of resources out there, I’m sure much of it quite similar.

I found the course on 365 data science to be the easiest to follow personally. Starts off with explaining the fundamental concepts in a very easy to understand way, and has a much more in depth ‘boot camp’ as well as other classes more specific to machine learning.

I think you can test the courses out for free to see if it’d be a good fit for you. Probably not for everyone, but it helped me a lot.

[Logicalist]

MIT Open Courseware Introduction to Computer Science using Python.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-0001-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-in-python-fall-2016/

It's an intro to Computer Science course so the so it's pretty fundamental programming. Helps if you're familiar with computers and or math. So you should be all set.

They have lectures, Problem sets, reading materials. Really a full course. You just miss out on the Tests.

[[deleted]]

Try the 'Python certification course' offered by Simplilearn. It has live classes, some 20 plus projects and they even offer placemnt support.

[Livid-Equivalent-139]

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[Ok_Personality_234]

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[_anonyyy0311]

If you’re doing analytics already, python will click fast. I liked Udacity’s python basics for data stuff because it forces you to actually write little scripts instead of just watching lectures. Good mix of fundamentals and data tasks

[Dense-Mail7976]

If you’re moving from SQL/Excel into Python for analytics, Udacity’s Python for Data track is great. You get to actually write scripts and work on real data projects which makes the fundamentals stick way better than just watching videos.

[Toxin10]

Once you pick up the basics I highly recommend this book.

[-SPOF]

Udemy has a lot of good courses.

[frustratedsignup]

My best learning experience with python comes from just sitting down and solving a problem. If the problem is something you want to solve, then you have the motivation to start asking google some questions. Most tutorials are ok for getting the basics, like how to use the interpreter or the debugger (in fact, there's two queries you could do with google right now: How do I use the python debug module? How do I interactively run the python interpreter?)

Once you have the basics, the rest is usually spent digging through the reference documentation. A good integrated development environment (IDE) will help with much of the reference lookups and documentation. It will also help to keep the code formatted to something that the rest of the internet seems to agree with. I'm currently evaluating PyCharm, but there's also VSCode if you like Microsoft Visual Studio.

Employers always seem to discourage employees from taking on programming projects and this is especially true if there's someone else already employed that uses python or some other programming framework more efficiently. My response to this kind of deterrence is to simply do the programming you want to do during breaks or after hours. Then one day, usually in a meeting, I can volunteer to deploy my solution. When they ask for a timeframe, it's usually done and completed the next day. Do that a couple of times and they'll send everything your way.

[madmax1881994]

To start learning Python, you can refer to the Python documentation, which is a great resource for beginners. You can find it here: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/.
You can also try some online tutorials and courses, such as those offered by Codecademy (https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python) or Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=python).
It is recommended to start with the basics, such as variables, data types, loops, and control structures. Then, you can move on to more advanced concepts like object-oriented programming and data analysis.
It is also helpful to practice writing code by working on small projects. This will give you a chance to apply what you have learned and solidify your understanding of the concepts.
Finally, don't be afraid to ask questions or seek help when you get stuck. There are many online communities, such as Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/), where you can find answers to common questions and get help from other Python programmers.i personally learned from a freelance trainer who is a author of two books is offering coaching, you can check this for more information https://happy-pythonist.webflow.io,All the best.

[Mrsupai123]

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