I'm preparing for some interviews and I was wondering from the blind community how long you think it would take to Learn Python? I am familiar with programming concepts. I have about 1 month to learn.
Why is python become hot for interviews ? Is it cause of ml?
Yup. R and Python are most widely adapted to statistical programming and other data science projects. Python is easier to learn and better suited for data visualizations (besides data analysis).
Am not an expert on coding so SWEs may have other opinions re: interviews. I am in product management, so like to use Python for some idea testing or proof of concept discussions with my engineering team, and encourage my PM team to do the same...
2 days
A week max
+1. I took a course on coursera and udacity but continue to dabble in Python code for data science related POCs
Python is great because there are no types and everything is magic. There are random hidden builtin dunderscore functions for lots of core functionality, documentation is hand-wavy (like the language itself), and it’s very slow. But on the plus side, it reduces the number of keystrokes you have to make to ship your code. Because we all know that number of keystrokes taken to write the code is the number one bottleneck of software companies.
I learned enough of it in a weekend to start scripting at work. It probably took a month of daily use to master it.
Hi I am in the same place as you although I have given myself more than a month. Plenty of online resources.. I'm practicing on HackerRank and will move to Leet code as well. Google has Python exercises as well so practice that.