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Welcome to Python

“The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code — not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death.”

— Guido van Rossum

**All the resources that I could ever have when it comes to python. It was doing me no good having it in google drive folder. Instead Obsidian is here for the rescue!

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1. Pick Your IDE!

   • jupyterlab
   • PyCharm
   • VSCode
   • iPython
   • Colab
     • the best way to understand something is to reverse engineer it.
   • For a beginner IDE, there is Pythonfiddle with examples!

2. The basics.

   • Dive in here!
   • It's good to reference the docs too
   • ultimately though it's how well you use your tools when it comes to python.

3. Practice makes Perfect!

   • here are practice problems
   • test them out & show as you go.
   • this is the official reference to use

Note to self: organize the info put together here from many years ago as next task put it into practice in obsidian/wherever

sidenote: a few formatting tips for obsidian going forward.