Pythonlikeyoumeanit.com Website Review

Python Like You Mean It (PLYMI) is a free resource for learning the basics of Python & NumPy, and moreover, becoming a competent Python user. The features of the Python language that are emphasized here were chosen to help those who are particularly interested in STEM applications (data an*lysis, machine learning, numerical work, etc.). I want this to be a lean, one-stop resource for learning the essentials of Python from scratch. The reader will begin by learning about what Python is and what installing Python even means, and will hopefully walk away with a solid understanding of a substantial core of the language and its premiere numerical library, NumPy. I am also placing an emphasis on best practices throughout this site and am teaching to the latest version of Python (version 3.6, as of writing this). This is not even close to being an exhaustive treatment of the Python language, and is not sufficient to become a “complete” Python user. But it will hopefully provide a solid enough foundation that acquiring those missing pieces will be relatively easy. This is also not a de*p “Python for Data Science” resource. It will not teach you how to use machine learning and data an*lysis libraries like sci-kit learn and Pandas. That being said, NumPy is such a critically-important library that it has de*ply influenced essentially all of the other major STEM-related Python libraries (e.g. sci-kit, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Pandas). The NumPy content presented here will serve as a cornerstone for working with all of these libraries down the road. Books and blogs can be great. I personally think that programming books can overwhelming because they are required to be so complete; it is hard for a someone new to a language to distill the essentials of the Python language from hundreds of pages of text. Furthermore, it simply makes more sense to make this sort of material available digitally; users should be able to easily search the site, view it on mobile devices, copy code snippets, and know that the content is being kept up-to-date.