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Devac  ·  2246 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python

Absolutely. It's one of the best languages to get started on programming. Versatile, quite fast and has a huge user base. The last part is important for practical reasons: there are many people who can help you get through problems, write tutorials, implement additional libraries and so on.

EDIT: Seeing how you wrote 'full stack freelancer' on your profile, I'd like to add that Python can be used as a server backend and host projects with frameworks like Django, but I'm not very experienced with it myself. Most of my coding relates to scientific computing with packages like Pandas or Scipy



sfereng  ·  2245 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Okay, that's motivational, which is needed on my end. I haven't yet installed Python, and I wouldn't need to while I'm going over the lessons with DataQuest. Oh, I've so much to learn.

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sfereng  ·  2243 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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Devac  ·  2245 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You can experiment with Python on repl.it. You also can't go wrong with Python for Everybody (it's free). If you'd have questions I (and quite a few other people here) can try answering them.

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sfereng  ·  2243 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thank you so much, Devac. I'll bookmark the links and check them out.

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