Python as an ML Tool covers: Python for Everybody, Effective Python. 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.
You already know how to program. You've been doing it for years. You've shipped production systems, maintained libraries other people depend on, written test suites thousands of e…
Here is the most important thing to understand about this course: you are not learning to program. You did that years ago. You have shipped production systems, debugged race condi…
There is a stage in every polyglot programmer's life where their second language is technically correct and unmistakably foreign. Python written by a Rubyist has a smell: .map-sha…
Work through each item before the checkpoint.
Before any model, there's the data — messy CSVs, missing values, columns that need reshaping. Build the toolkit from the standard library up: a CSV parser that survives quoted fie…
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.