[omaha] For Python beginners

[Gary Hlusko]

Generally what I've suggested are codeacademy, python the hard way, youtube
tutorials from pycon, or the book "Beginning Python - From Novice To
Professional.

For projects I recommend project Euler and 100 projects on github.
https://github.com/karan/Projects.

I haven't really seen anyone in the workforce ask for certification for
data jobs asking for python. Sometimes they will ask for a sample project
you did or complete some really basic data project in 48 hours.

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Eric Edens via Omaha <omaha at python.org>
wrote:

> > Last I checked, dive into python is no longer recommended since it's _so_
> out of date.
>
> No way! All that stuff runs fine on my 486.
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2015, 5:05 PM Tim Alexander <dragonfyre13 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Last I checked, dive into python is no longer recommended since it's _so_
> > out of date. I refer people to hitchhikers guide to python at
> > http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/ instead.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 12:31 PM Eric Edens via Omaha <omaha at python.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> http://www.diveintopython.net/
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Keith Nickum via Omaha <
> omaha at python.org
> >> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Noticed this GroupOn today to learn Python. $59 bucks for an online
> >> course
> >> > with a certificate isn't...*terrible* (of course there's always Code
> >> > Academy or, I'm guessing Khan Academy...or I want to say Harvard
> >> Extension
> >> > School may provide some online Python classes, all of which I believe
> >> are
> >> > free?):
> >> >
> >> > https://www.groupon.com/deals/learnsmart-703-lincoln
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