I have currently been debating what kind of programme I want to create in Python. I have had experience with machine learning in the past but I don’t feel that it is wholly useful for the general public.
After looking at a variety of projects online I have noticed that many of them, in my opinion, throw you in at the deep end of Python.
Therefore, for the time being I am just going to focus on understanding and learning the principles of Python and forwarding that information on to you. Only once I am fully happy with the language will I set my heart on a larger project. This should create a real authentic pace to the work without asking too much at one time.
There is a lot of fun and quirky projects you can do in Python. However, I have not started this programming commitment to do “fun and quirky” things. I want to take this seriously and perform real-life tasks.
Although I have not decided on a project yet, I do know that it will revolve around actually tasks that data scientists perform. Projects like creating a calculator or a flash-card machine sound more interesting but aren’t practically useful.
More and more employers want useful programming skills and I feel that doing projects like above hugely neglect that.
Also a new episode will be released on Friday the 14th June at around 6pm (GMT). This episode will introduce and explain some more Python jargon and mainly focus around creating and using lists. It’s going to be a bit of long one but by the end of it you’d have covered quite a lot of important tools in Python.
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