Starting this to be like a stackoverflow so I can harass leroi with dumb questions and help anyone else who is trying to learn goose Where Eagles Dare TDCD
this guy puts nfldata out there - if you ever want any play data to mess around with https://github.com/BurntSushi/nflgame
Python is way cooler and cleaner than that inferior language joe posted above Code: while 1==1: print("joe pesci secretly sad and embarrased that he doesn't know python")
C#'s isn't the best to start on, but if I understand what you're saying starting with Java is the best.
VBS is a fairly easy language compared to others, although the good part it is transferable when learning. If you don't mind why are you learning C or C++?
in school right now, but most of the jobs in this area require some C#. So the school just changed their curriculum from VB to C# and knew i needed it.
Been slacking on my coursera, getting caught back up this week. I'm a couple weeks behind. Trying to get caught up this weekend.
I'm most proficient in Fortran unfortunately so when I switch over to Python or any other object oriented programming language it is such a pain in the ass. I like python though, use it a lot to mine through data and make pretty charts. It's also extremely well supported in the community so there is a limitless amount of help out there if you get stuck.
Going to get on some python-pptx soon to start auto generating these standard powerpoints we have to make every week.
User = raw_input("Enter User Name: ") If User == "goose" ----print "You're a fgt" Else: ----print "You're still a fgt"
I mostly use it to build configuration files for devices I program. We also use it to generate project status reports, generate points lists, and various other tasks.
Work with mostly C#/.NET stuff and Javascript, but interesting in learning functional programming languages like Elixir. I did a big Ruby on Rails tutorial so have a little bit of experience (with respect to Ruby), but I'm mostly motivated since I keep seeing people act like there is an impending wave of Functional languages that flood the job market.
I just use it right now for data analysis/manipulation/automation so using Pandas and numpy win23client for emailing and excel stuff matplotlib - going to start doing some plotting soon
The datasets I work with don't allow me to use excel. Our output files are several TB's worth of data stored in HDF5 format.
Java and C# are similar enough, imo, that it should be too much of a challenge to start, unless you're talking about trying to set up a Programming environment. It wasn't hard for me to take an Algorithms course online in Java even though I had only been working in C# (did take a couple of courses in Java in college but that's been almost 10 years now).
Also, if anyone is like me and switched careers into Software Development or wants a more fundamental understanding of programming, I HIGHLY recommend these free online courses. https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partII When you take them back-to-back, they span about a semester's length. You can download all the lecture videos, but they release two lectures worth every week and assign homework and beefy programming assignments (students at Princeton basically follow the same course and do these same assignments). You don't need a strong math background, but they do explain a lot of classic Data Structures and Algorithms in discrete mathematical terms and sometimes Calculus. When you submit your programming assignments, an autograder will test the shit out of it (timing, memory, etc.) to make sure you properly implemented whatever data structure/algorithm the assignment covers and assigns a grade accordingly. The downside is that it's Princeton's policy to not award any certificate of completion for any of their Cousera classes. Not that anyone gives a shit about my story, but I initially tried to major in both CS and Bio in college. I then switched solely to Bio since I had the idea that I would want to go to graduate school for Cell Bio, now I'm back to what I was initially studying years ago and love it. Probably not going to go back to college at this point since I feel that there is enough free/cheap resources for me to learn as much fundamentals as possible. I'm by no means an expert at this point, but I've busted my ass enough to know that if I need to learn something I feel confident that I can.
graduated with a CS degree, got a job as a systems engineer and don't code anymore... miss it some though and am going to be starting some side projects soon to keep my skills fresh
print "Are you a fgt?"; my $response=<STDIN>; if ($response =~ "yes" || $response =~ "Yes") { print "You're a fgt\n"; } elseif ($response =~ "no" || $response =~ "No") { print "Too bad you're still a fgt\n" }
Also thanks to whoever started a thread like this a while back, it's what piqued my interest to try some online classes, and eventually go back to school So way to go, you
I'm a finance nerd who got into larger data sets and an old CIO I worked for hired me to do analytics and predictive modeling, shit I haven't done before. So basically I'm all.... My old company was in the process of selling and I was actually looking to go back to school for analytics and data science. So I'm doing hard core On the Job training.
I will say that coursera classes didn't do a whole lot for me with python http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ - going though some of this helped way more edit - link to free pdf http://www.souravsengupta.com/int2pro2014/python/LPTHW.pdf also just thinking of real world examples you might use python for and doing them helped me learn a lot faster
I'm going to check this out after I finish the course. Didn't you do this first before through Python for Everyone? The course is pretty low level so you might have a head start.