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Python basics — Quick notes

Jayasagar

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Dec 19, 2017

This blog is about how quickly I learned certain concepts in Python to boost up my Machine Learning skills using Python. My goal was to explore and use open source languages, libraries, and tools for my next journey towards learning Machine Learning.

No second thought choosing Python as a language for Machine Learning projects! Python eco system has everything required for a data scientist such as NumPy, Pandas, matplotlib and scikit-learn and growing everyday through the strong community.

As I am coming especially from a different programming language, before doing any experiment I decide to spend little time to learn Python language basics at high level so that I feel comfortable and be better developer eventually as I implement the logic!!

This blog is a very high level introduction and far away from the actual Python documentation, language constructs. To have a deep dive you can refer to https://www.python.org/doc/

This blog is targeted for a programmer coming from different programming language and understand some of the Python concepts and terminology!

Here are the few notable things to understand apart from basic conditional structures and loops!