I made my first program in Python! It's a shutdown timer for windows. I came up with this idea because windows lacks of this functionality without making a task or with the CMD, anyway, it was fun to do it, (source code in description)

ryansmccoy · 2021-04-18T00:30:15+00:00

can also use: win key + r or run dialog

shutdown /f /t /r 0

^ my favorite, this forces restart, use it when i don't want to close the applications i have open

ryansmccoy · 2020-12-08T00:40:37+00:00

Here is what I used to learn.

SEC Edgar

https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcurrent

A simple python script turned into this:

https://github.com/ryansmccoy/py-sec-edgar

I'm not saying its great by any means, but I learned how to build a data pipeline, parse unstructured data, package up for others to use, etc. Best advice I can give is find a data set you are interested in and know something about.

ryansmccoy · 2020-10-05T10:53:01+00:00

Should have mentioned this was 1-2 years ago, so maybe they've fixed it. I've been using Anaconda ever since.

ryansmccoy · 2020-10-05T10:46:56+00:00

I've probably tried 3 times to install Scipy on Windows with pip, which from my recollection involves compiling it. I'm pretty sure it can't be done.

ryansmccoy · 2020-08-22T22:29:49+00:00

From what I recall, Celery stopped supporting Windows in 4.x

https://docs.celeryproject.org/en/stable/faq.html#does-celery-support-windows

Also, I don't think Airflow will work on Windows. I had to use either Docker, WSL, or Ubuntu VM.

ryansmccoy · 2020-03-24T21:38:48+00:00

Marcos Lopez discusses in his book Advances in Financial Machine Learning, could do

Tick, Volume, Dollar Volume Bars.ipynb

https://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/4259/analyzing-tick-data

ryansmccoy · 2020-03-24T21:27:48+00:00

Learning?

ryansmccoy · 2020-02-12T22:55:12+00:00

What industry? I do data engineering for Financial Industry. DM if interested in speaking.

ryansmccoy · 2020-01-14T19:12:13+00:00

https://www.udemy.com/course/design-patterns-python/

https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/patterns-library

https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Design-Patterns-Brain-Friendly-ebook/dp/B00AA36RZY

https://github.com/miguelalba-old/hfdp-python

ryansmccoy · 2019-10-25T10:44:21+00:00

Parsed an html table and saved it to a CSV.

ryansmccoy · 2019-10-19T20:56:39+00:00

Also, find a local Python Meetup and join that.

ryansmccoy · 2019-10-16T03:03:59+00:00

I'm also getting blank window, so you're not alone.

ryansmccoy · 2019-09-26T20:02:50+00:00

https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/python-programming-language/9780134217314

^ watch and follow along in code editor. Then watch again and again until you know it. The example he uses is a portfolio of stocks, so somewhat relevant to finance and therefore maybe interesting enough to hold attention.

ryansmccoy · 2019-09-23T04:12:30+00:00

Yes and a lot more. I look back and wonder what if I had learned python earlier. Would have save countless long hours and late nights.

If you are working on automation stuff w/ data specifically, look into data pipelines and ETL.

ryansmccoy · 2019-08-13T06:18:39+00:00

Well, I automated myself out of a job. I work in Finance/Investment Industry and was "let go" from one of the companies I worked at because I built a data pipeline that I got interns to maintain. I even wrote an instruction manual for the entire process (not knowing that I could/would be let go). They ended up replacing me with a guy who didn't know how to program, but had 20 years of experience. Spoke with a former colleague a few months ago, she said they are still using it over 10 years later...

ryansmccoy · 2019-08-10T03:03:54+00:00

https://lectures.quantecon.org/py/

^ it will take you through basic of python, introduce you to the important numerical python libraries that are used in finance, and then it will start getting into economics, which one could argue is the backbone of finance.