Background: I'm a statistician data scientist who works mainly in R, and has done some C and C++ coding (numerical algorithms, not any general-purpose stuff). I'm looking to learn Python, which seems ...

Finally, a book good enough to be both a textbook and a reference on the Python language now exists. Part of Prentice Hall's PTR Core Series, this book works well as a first Python textbook for ...

Interactive platforms like Codecademy and Dataquest.io let you learn and code right in your browser, making python online practice easy and accessible. For structured learning, Coursera and the ‘Think ...