From yogesh.riyat at gmail.com Mon Jan 4 18:27:58 2021 From: yogesh.riyat at gmail.com (Yogesh Riyat) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 17:27:58 -0600 Subject: [Chicago] A picture book that teaches Python basics In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'm taking basic/intro courses on Python on Coursera (the U of T Learning to Program courses). Any idea how to get to an intermediate level? I think this is done through projects? It would be great if there was a course that was just focused on projects...or a book? Any guidance is appreciated. It would be nice to learn on the job, but I'm in a chicken-egg dilemma here. I don't have a CS degree or work experience. Ideally I'd like an entry level role in finance/hedge funds. Thanks in advance Yogesh On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 9:26 AM Shari Eskenas wrote: > Hey everyone! > > I'm writing a unique Python book for beginners and would love to get your > feedback. It's in the form of a picture book! It tells a story with Python > programs that represent real-life situations. The purpose is to teach the > basics of Python with the code examples that compose the story. *A Day in > Code: Python *is on Kickstarter (ends Jan. 15th): > > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/914595512/a-day-in-code-python > > Have a happy new year! ? > > Best Regards, > Shari Eskenas > www.sundaelectronics.com > > -- > > Shari Eskenas > Founder and CEO | Sundae Electronics LLC > www.sundaelectronics.com > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -- Yogesh K. Riyat McKinsey & Company (Alum) University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Alum) (847)977-8087 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From peppers at gmail.com Tue Jan 5 10:40:34 2021 From: peppers at gmail.com (Terry Peppers) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 09:40:34 -0600 Subject: [Chicago] A picture book that teaches Python basics In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I would try something like this. https://github.com/yasoob/practical-python-projects On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 9:35 AM Yogesh Riyat wrote: > I'm taking basic/intro courses on Python on Coursera (the U of T Learning > to Program courses). Any idea how to get to an intermediate level? I think > this is done through projects? It would be great if there was a course that > was just focused on projects...or a book? Any guidance is appreciated. > It would be nice to learn on the job, but I'm in a chicken-egg dilemma > here. I don't have a CS degree or work experience. Ideally I'd like an > entry level role in finance/hedge funds. > > Thanks in advance > Yogesh > > > > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 9:26 AM Shari Eskenas < > shariesk at sundaelectronics.com> wrote: > >> Hey everyone! >> >> I'm writing a unique Python book for beginners and would love to get your >> feedback. It's in the form of a picture book! It tells a story with Python >> programs that represent real-life situations. The purpose is to teach the >> basics of Python with the code examples that compose the story. *A Day >> in Code: Python *is on Kickstarter (ends Jan. 15th): >> >> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/914595512/a-day-in-code-python >> >> Have a happy new year! ? >> >> Best Regards, >> Shari Eskenas >> www.sundaelectronics.com >> >> -- >> >> Shari Eskenas >> Founder and CEO | Sundae Electronics LLC >> www.sundaelectronics.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> > > > -- > Yogesh K. Riyat > McKinsey & Company (Alum) > University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Alum) > (847)977-8087 > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From qiaozha at gmail.com Tue Jan 5 10:50:39 2021 From: qiaozha at gmail.com (Qiao Qiao) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 09:50:39 -0600 Subject: [Chicago] A picture book that teaches Python basics In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0c529944-f718-413c-a51d-822661a688d6@Spark> Hi, Yogesh: I think it depends on what you want to do. For example, if you are interested in web application development. Flask Web Development:?Developing Web Applications with Python?is a good book. As you have background in finance, some data mining, data processing book may be helpful for you. Data Wrangling with Python Python for Data Analysis Mining the Social Web If you want to learn medium level usage of python.?Python Cookbook?and?Effective Python?teach you how to use python correctly and efficiently. For advanced project, you can try?500 Lines Or Less: Experienced Programmers Solve. Those are about really projects and I think this book is too hard for me, but may be good for you. Qiao Qiao On Jan 5, 2021, 9:35 AM -0600, Yogesh Riyat , wrote: > I'm taking basic/intro courses on Python on Coursera (the U of T Learning to Program courses). Any idea how to get to an intermediate level? I think this is done through projects? It would be great if there was a course that was just focused on projects...or a book? Any guidance is appreciated. > It would be nice to learn on the job, but I'm in a chicken-egg dilemma here. I don't have a CS degree or work experience. Ideally I'd like an entry level role in finance/hedge funds. > > Thanks in?advance > Yogesh > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 9:26 AM Shari Eskenas wrote: > > > Hey everyone! > > > > > > I'm writing a unique Python book for beginners and would love to get your feedback. It's in the form of a picture book!?It tells a story with Python programs that represent real-life situations. The purpose is to teach the basics of Python with the code examples that compose the story.?A Day in Code: Python?is?on Kickstarter (ends Jan. 15th): > > > > > > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/914595512/a-day-in-code-python > > > > > > Have a happy new year!?? > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > Shari Eskenas > > > www.sundaelectronics.com > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Shari Eskenas > > > Founder and CEO | Sundae Electronics LLC > > > www.sundaelectronics.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Chicago mailing list > > > Chicago at python.org > > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > > -- > Yogesh K. Riyat > McKinsey & Company (Alum) > University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Alum) > (847)977-8087 > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yogesh.riyat at gmail.com Tue Jan 5 11:22:18 2021 From: yogesh.riyat at gmail.com (Yogesh Riyat) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 10:22:18 -0600 Subject: [Chicago] A picture book that teaches Python basics In-Reply-To: <0c529944-f718-413c-a51d-822661a688d6@Spark> References: <0c529944-f718-413c-a51d-822661a688d6@Spark> Message-ID: thanks Terry and Qiao ! I bought this Oreilly machine learning book, and in chapter two there is an end-to-end project. the author was using python that was hard for me to decipher. So, I guess my lesson was that I'm not fluent enough in python to really dive into ML. this book "python crash course" which I guess is a series is sometimes recommended..but mixed reviews... thanks again On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 10:02 AM Qiao Qiao wrote: > Hi, Yogesh: > > I think it depends on what you want to do. > > For example, if you are interested in web application development. > Flask Web Development: *Developing Web Applications with Python* is a > good book. > > As you have background in finance, some data mining, data processing book > may be helpful for you. > Data Wrangling with Python > Python for Data Analysis > Mining the Social Web > > If you want to learn medium level usage of python. *Python Cookbook* and *Effective > Python* teach you how to use python correctly and efficiently. > > For advanced project, you can try *500 Lines Or Less: Experienced > Programmers Solve. * > Those are about really projects and I think this book is too hard for me, > but may be good for you. > > Qiao Qiao > On Jan 5, 2021, 9:35 AM -0600, Yogesh Riyat , > wrote: > > I'm taking basic/intro courses on Python on Coursera (the U of T Learning > to Program courses). Any idea how to get to an intermediate level? I think > this is done through projects? It would be great if there was a course that > was just focused on projects...or a book? Any guidance is appreciated. > It would be nice to learn on the job, but I'm in a chicken-egg dilemma > here. I don't have a CS degree or work experience. Ideally I'd like an > entry level role in finance/hedge funds. > > Thanks in advance > Yogesh > > > > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 9:26 AM Shari Eskenas < > shariesk at sundaelectronics.com> wrote: > >> Hey everyone! >> >> I'm writing a unique Python book for beginners and would love to get your >> feedback. It's in the form of a picture book! It tells a story with Python >> programs that represent real-life situations. The purpose is to teach the >> basics of Python with the code examples that compose the story. *A Day >> in Code: Python *is on Kickstarter (ends Jan. 15th): >> >> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/914595512/a-day-in-code-python >> >> Have a happy new year! ? >> >> Best Regards, >> Shari Eskenas >> www.sundaelectronics.com >> >> -- >> >> Shari Eskenas >> Founder and CEO | Sundae Electronics LLC >> www.sundaelectronics.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> > > > -- > Yogesh K. 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URL: From peppers at gmail.com Tue Jan 5 11:46:30 2021 From: peppers at gmail.com (Terry Peppers) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 10:46:30 -0600 Subject: [Chicago] A picture book that teaches Python basics In-Reply-To: References: <0c529944-f718-413c-a51d-822661a688d6@Spark> Message-ID: One more is the stuff @ Talk Python. https://talkpython.fm/ This was done quite well from what I recall when doing it. https://training.talkpython.fm/courses/explore_100days_in_python/100-days-of-code-in-python On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 10:34 AM Yogesh Riyat wrote: > thanks Terry and Qiao ! > I bought this Oreilly machine learning book, and in chapter two there is > an end-to-end project. the author was using python that was hard for me to > decipher. So, I guess my lesson was that I'm not fluent enough in python to > really dive into ML. > this book "python crash course" which I guess is a series is sometimes > recommended..but mixed reviews... > thanks again > > > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 10:02 AM Qiao Qiao wrote: > >> Hi, Yogesh: >> >> I think it depends on what you want to do. >> >> For example, if you are interested in web application development. >> Flask Web Development: *Developing Web Applications with Python* is a >> good book. >> >> As you have background in finance, some data mining, data processing book >> may be helpful for you. >> Data Wrangling with Python >> Python for Data Analysis >> Mining the Social Web >> >> If you want to learn medium level usage of python. *Python Cookbook* and *Effective >> Python* teach you how to use python correctly and efficiently. >> >> For advanced project, you can try *500 Lines Or Less: Experienced >> Programmers Solve. * >> Those are about really projects and I think this book is too hard for me, >> but may be good for you. >> >> Qiao Qiao >> On Jan 5, 2021, 9:35 AM -0600, Yogesh Riyat , >> wrote: >> >> I'm taking basic/intro courses on Python on Coursera (the U of T Learning >> to Program courses). Any idea how to get to an intermediate level? I think >> this is done through projects? It would be great if there was a course that >> was just focused on projects...or a book? Any guidance is appreciated. >> It would be nice to learn on the job, but I'm in a chicken-egg dilemma >> here. I don't have a CS degree or work experience. Ideally I'd like an >> entry level role in finance/hedge funds. >> >> Thanks in advance >> Yogesh >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 9:26 AM Shari Eskenas < >> shariesk at sundaelectronics.com> wrote: >> >>> Hey everyone! >>> >>> I'm writing a unique Python book for beginners and would love to get >>> your feedback. It's in the form of a picture book! It tells a story with >>> Python programs that represent real-life situations. The purpose is to >>> teach the basics of Python with the code examples that compose the story. *A >>> Day in Code: Python *is on Kickstarter (ends Jan. 15th): >>> >>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/914595512/a-day-in-code-python >>> >>> Have a happy new year! ? >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Shari Eskenas >>> www.sundaelectronics.com >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Shari Eskenas >>> Founder and CEO | Sundae Electronics LLC >>> www.sundaelectronics.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chicago mailing list >>> Chicago at python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>> >> >> >> -- >> Yogesh K. 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I learned a lot of really useful tricks and insight to going about challenging coding problems and it really helped prepare me for future technical interviews. It was also really great getting to interact with others during the pandemic. - *Making Scaled Data Science Work For People, And Not The Other Way Around* By: Hugo Bowne-Anderson Data science is too often discussed as a technical discipline, rather than a social and cultural one. But the role of data science is to both inform and automate decision-making processes, which require, in turn, humans to collaborate and communicate with each other and humans to collaborate with machines, both of which have key cultural and social dimensions. Why do so many executives feel that so little of the data work in their organizations actually delivers returns? How can we reduce friction in factoring the process of turning business questions into business answers through the intermediaries of data questions and data answers? What provisions need be in place to make sure that everybody is speaking enough of the same data languages to excel at their jobs? How do we promote data literacy throughout organizations while getting the job done? This talk is aimed at data professionals (and anybody else) who want to figure out how to establish healthy and productive data cultures in the workplace. I?ll conclude by interrogating the example of establishing the culture of modern distributed data science work in organizations and all the moving parts that need to be in place for it to function. - *From Python To Rust* By: Kevin Nasto Ever been curious about the Rust programming language? This talk will describe the experience of going through the Advent of Code puzzles in Rust from the point of view of a Python user. Discover the alternatives to pip, functions and passing values, exception handling, and more. Thank you always to our sponsors, including Braintree and JFrog. 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URL: From mikaeltamillow96 at gmail.com Tue Jan 12 12:38:59 2021 From: mikaeltamillow96 at gmail.com (Michael Tamillow) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:38:59 -0600 Subject: [Chicago] ChiPy January 2021 __main__ Meeting Live Stream In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I have some opinions on the second topic. I think a quote sums it up fairly nicely: "In many areas of simulation there are neither such known experiences nor theory. Thus when I was occasionally asked to do some ecological simulation I quietly asked for the mathematically expressed rules for every possible interaction, for example given the amount of rain what growth of the trees would would occur, what exactly were the constants, and also where I could get some real live data to compare some test runs. They soon got the idea and went elsewhere to get someone more willing to run very questionable simulations which would give the results they wanted and could use for their propaganda. I suggest you keep your integrity and do not allow yourself to be used for other people's propaganda; you need to be wary when agreeing to do a simulation." - The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, Learning to Learn - Richard W. Hamming, 1996 On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 9:00 AM Joe Jasinski wrote: > Hi ChiPy, > > We have a great __main__ meeting planned for you this Thursday (Dec 14) > at 6pm. Join our Live Stream. Hope to see you there! > > *When: *Thursday January 14, 2021, 6 p.m. > *Where: *Remote Meeting > You can join our Live Stream at the following link: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gEdAYJG2r4 > > *What*: > > - *First Time Advent of Coding* > By: Stephen Ianno > > Recalling my experience doing Advent of Code for the first time. How > being part of a small community of others completing each challenge really > motivated me to complete each challenge myself. It was also really amazing > being able to look at the solutions from other, more experienced > participants and discuss the solutions through Slack. I learned a lot of > really useful tricks and insight to going about challenging coding problems > and it really helped prepare me for future technical interviews. It was > also really great getting to interact with others during the pandemic. > - *Making Scaled Data Science Work For People, And Not The Other Way > Around* > By: Hugo Bowne-Anderson > > Data science is too often discussed as a technical discipline, rather > than a social and cultural one. But the role of data science is to both > inform and automate decision-making processes, which require, in turn, > humans to collaborate and communicate with each other and humans to > collaborate with machines, both of which have key cultural and social > dimensions. Why do so many executives feel that so little of the data work > in their organizations actually delivers returns? How can we reduce > friction in factoring the process of turning business questions into > business answers through the intermediaries of data questions and data > answers? What provisions need be in place to make sure that everybody is > speaking enough of the same data languages to excel at their jobs? How do > we promote data literacy throughout organizations while getting the job > done? This talk is aimed at data professionals (and anybody else) who want > to figure out how to establish healthy and productive data cultures in the > workplace. I?ll conclude by interrogating the example of establishing the > culture of modern distributed data science work in organizations and all > the moving parts that need to be in place for it to function. > - *From Python To Rust* > By: Kevin Nasto > > Ever been curious about the Rust programming language? This talk will > describe the experience of going through the Advent of Code puzzles in Rust > from the point of view of a Python user. Discover the alternatives to pip, > functions and passing values, exception handling, and more. > > > > Thank you always to our sponsors, including Braintree and JFrog. ChiPy is > a community run event and we depend on generous donations from our sponsors > to make events and activities possible. > If you or your company is interested in sponsoring, we'd love to talk with > you as we update our sponsorships for 2020. > > Please be aware of and abide by our code of conduct http://www.chipy > .org/pages/conduct/ > > Engage with ChiPy > Website: https://www.chipy.org/ > Slack: https://joinchipyslack.herokuapp.com/ > Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/ > Github: https://github.com/chicagopython/chipy.org > Twitter: https://twitter.com/chicagopython > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT372EAC1orBOSUd2fsA8WA > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: