Free eBooks: Scientific Computing with Python 3, Python Machine Learning, Advance Python Machine Learning @ Packtpub

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  chrism238 on 21/10/2018 - 19:59

  +3

  Sure enough.
  And go to the bottom of https://www.packtpub.com//packt/offers/free-learning?login=1
  and you'll see 6 other free Python books (and 24 others).

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    Being Askhole on 21/10/2018 - 20:23

    Thanks updated OP :)

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  Robin2012 on 21/10/2018 - 20:30

  thanks

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  Oneiricer on 21/10/2018 - 21:03

  Python is so popular these days. Wonder if the crash will come?

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    chrism238 on 21/10/2018 - 21:13

    +3

    I don't think so, not for some time. When Perl and Ruby were comparatively popular, for example, it was easy to find articles criticising them for some reason (readability, portability, speed…), but it's (currently) difficult to find any articles criticising Python. Moreover, with US universities and colleges shifting to Python, from Java (from C++) as their introductory programming languages, and so much Python being taught as part of the CS-in-schools programmes, there's going to be 10+ years invested that people won't want wasted. It's currently too big to fail, and there's no replacement in sight.

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      Oneiricer on 21/10/2018 - 21:14

      interesting, thanks. Are these books any good? or are they like the Udemy courses - very light on detail and pretty useless?

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        chrism238 on 21/10/2018 - 21:30

        +1

        (arrogantly!) I know most of the material in these Python books so don't read them myself, but as they're free I do recommend them to my univ. students (because they won't purchase a full textbook, anyway).

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        GordonR on 21/10/2018 - 22:03

        +4

        They are good books. Packt is a legitimate tech publisher of real books written by CS academics,, IT professionals etc.

        No comparison to the free Kindle self-publish crap.

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          Munki on 21/10/2018 - 22:57

          +5

          @GordonR: I too am a Counter Strike academic and I think they're alright.

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        tarken on 22/10/2018 - 09:07

        I found this paid python udemy course quite detailed. Bought this using my google rewards credit.
        https://www.udemy.com/complete-python-bootcamp/

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          zero23 on 22/10/2018 - 09:28

          +2

          @tarken: How do you use Google rewards to buy it?

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            tarken on 22/10/2018 - 11:24

            +2

            @zero23: Using the udemy app.

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              WhyAmICommenting on 22/10/2018 - 12:54

              @tarken: Cheers

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      02keilj on 22/10/2018 - 11:53

      Since you sound like you know what you are talking about. What are your opinions on GO? I know a bit of python, mostly for web scraping, running some stats, or accessing content through an API. A few people I know have been really excited about GO. Is it a replacement for languages other than python or is there a bit of an overlap where it might be seen as a better option?

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  tenshi13 on 21/10/2018 - 21:10

  +1

  this is awesome, thanks for sharing

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  gg16 on 22/10/2018 - 05:35

  It looks like subscribing will give you access to all books for free (with a 14 day trial)

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  G-Dawg on 22/10/2018 - 07:41

  +4

  Can also download 'Scientific Computing with Python 3' here.

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  Palamedes on 22/10/2018 - 07:46

  Very good thanks, did not know about this mob.

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  darkmattersunB6c0MV on 22/10/2018 - 07:55

  Thanks for sharing. Also got one book earlier from one of the previous deals.
  The book was very well written.
  Thanks OP.

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  philmarcracken on 22/10/2018 - 08:34

  Thanks, I was looking for something like this

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  blitzenray on 22/10/2018 - 09:22

  +2

  I've been using python for about 5 years now. I highly recommend once you have the basics down with the language, learn pandas and numpy next. The documentation on pandas site is actually very good. I highly recommend the youtube channel data school. He will show you pandas and sklearn. Get on kaggle and start practicing using the free data and notebook service they have. Also sentdex has a bunch of cool videos on all sorts of things you can do with python. I think the only book I've paid for that was actually more useful than free resources you can find online is the book 'Writing Idiomatic Python' by Jeff Knupp. This will show you the python way to write code, so it is clean and readable.

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    quincymac on 22/10/2018 - 09:28

    +1

    Another book worth getting is Wes Mckinney's Python for Data Analysis

    Also a free online book by Jake VDP (that guy rocks)

    https://jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataScienceHandbook/index.ht…

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    od810 on 22/10/2018 - 11:25

    I personally find Pandas construct super weird. It tries to copy R but not to the same level of R. For me, I find PySpark has much better construct to traditional programmer. Although it's just personal taste.