intro to python

Jennifer Li lijenniferx@gmail.com

Downloading Python

• https://www.enthought.com/products/canopy/

Why Use Python?

• Open source (aka free)

• Growing popularity

• Easy to learn and use

• Many preexisting tools and packages

Django, Flask

Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, !Scikit-learn, GraphLab

matplotlib,!seaborn

BeautifulSoup, !Scrapy, requests

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/lijenniferx/Python_Class/blob/master/Python%20Class.ipynb

https://github.com/lijenniferx/Python_Class

Code for anthem.py

Tutorial Code

https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/index.html

A great resource:

Education