L1
Honest Take — Before You Begin
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Course · 5 lessons
~30 hr
Beginner
Python as an ML Tool
Get functional in Python — not mastery, just enough to follow ML code and run experiments. You already know Ruby, so this is a language transfer, not learning to program.
reading · we frame, you read MIT or the canonical
taught · we author, no canonical fits
↺ spirals back to earlier lessons
L2
Read: Python for Everybody (Severance)
Approach: READ Ch 1-10, SKIM Ch 11-16
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Kaggle Learn: Python
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L3
Read: Effective Python (Slatkin)
Approach: SELECTIVE: Items 1-15, 19-27, 36-43
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Kaggle Learn: Python
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L4
Module Checklist
Work through each item before the checkpoint.
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L5
Checkpoint: Write a Python script that reads a CSV, processes data, a...
Write a Python script that reads a CSV, processes data, and outputs results
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5 lessons. Read in order; spiral back when you need to. By the end you'll have used the core ideas twice — once on the abstract, once on something you'll meet at work next week.