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Coding 101 (part 2)

21/03/2016 By debkr

This post follows on from my earlier post Coding 101, and is my responses and learnings from the highly-recommended Python programming book and course by Charles Severance (see References below).

Jargon:
I’m working on a glossary here, but still very unstructured and massively incomplete so I suggest staying with Google for now .

Some necessary concepts:
Programming consists of sentences or statements, which may include reserved words, which tell Python what we want it to do, but will also include some values in both numerical and text formats. These take the form of either constants, whose values don’t change, and variables, [Read more…] about Coding 101 (part 2)

Coding 101

11/03/2016 By debkr

A word before I begin
You can do no better in learning Python programming for data handling/analysis than to study for yourself one of Charles Servance’s MOOC’s, or to download and work through his freely-available, ‘remixed’ open-source book (see References below for links to both). I am not even standing of the shoulders of giants here… I am merely scurrying along way behind them all, picking up what few crumbs of knowledge and wisdom I can along the way. Blogging my own educational journey – as a 40-somthing woman heading into the world of tech – is a way to help me consolidate my own learnings. If it can help you too – above all by showing empirically that “if she can, then I can” – it will have served a double purpose. [Read more…]