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Python is the most popular language of Data Science and will be the one taught throughout the course. Libraries like numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, keras are all written for Python. The course will dive into those libraries from the first day, thatโs why this preparation work is very important to get the basics right.
Before you begin working on some code by yourself, take some time to read the following resources from the official Python 3 documentation and watch the following lecture:
๐ docs.python.org/3/tutorial/introduction.html
๐ CS50 Lecture - Python (1h48 on Youtube)
๐ A great cheat sheet on Python
To practise some Python without installing anything on your laptop (that is something we will do on the first day of the course), you can use Repl.it. Open a new tab and go to repl.it/languages/python3 - type print("Hello world")
in the text editor (in the middle) then click the run button. Thatโs it! You have a full environment to run Python code in your browser.
๐ Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: This is a great course to start learning Python.Go from Chapter 0 (Introduction) to Chapter 11 (Debugging). You can read the material and you can also follow along the Youtube videos with this playlist. Use repl.it to replicate what you see on screen and do some coding yourself as well!
After this course, you should be more comfortable with the basics of programming: types & variables, conditions, loops, functions, composite data structures (list and dict). Python allows you to do Object Oriented Programming as well and thatโs something to prepare yourself too. Again, donโt hesitate to use Repl.it:
๐ OOP Tutorial
๐ CS50 - OOP and AI
๐ APIs basics (only first part - free of charge)
After some training on pure Python as a programming language, you can dive into Pandas:
Introduction to Data Analysis (1h18 on Youtube). You can replicate the code by launching a Notebook in your browser.
Once youโve done that you can treat yourself by watching a 1-hour intro to ML by thoughbot (and if you speak French you can also watch this one ๐ซ๐ท)