Resources

Helpful Resources for COGS 108 Students

Basic Python:

• Python Crash Course (book)
• Learn Python the Hard Way
• COGS 18 Materials notes; textbook

Online Python Courses/Practice:

• Codeacademy
• CodingBat
• LeetCode
• PythonPractice

Version Control (git and GitHub):

• Getting Started with git
• GitHub Guide
• GitHub Desktop App Tutorial
• Git Command Line Resource
• Using git from the command line
  • Installing and using git (Part 1), by TA Ganesh (youtube, 22min tutorial)
  • merge conflicts and branching (Part 2), by IA Shubham Kulkarni (youtube, 8min tutorial)
• Using git with GitHub Desktop, by TA Sidharth Suresh (youtube, 13min tutorial)
• GIT & GITHUB TUTORIAL, from edureka!
  • with notes from TA Holly(Yueying Dong)
  • Personal Access Token Tutorial by IA-ish(?) Scott Yang
• Uh oh! My Jupyter notebook has loads of big images/plots and it is now too big to fit inside Github's file size limit. - https://pypi.org/project/ipynbcompress/

SQL Resources:

• PostgreSQL Exercises
• Mode Analytics

Data Visualization

• Data to Viz - help determining what visualization is appropriate; with code examples

More Data Science in Python Resources:

• Kaggle's learn pandas - for learning pandas (interactive programming)
• Python Data Science Handbook (book)
• Essential Cheat Sheets for Machine Learning and Deep Learning Engineers
• Python for Data Analysis(book)
• Learning Pandas

NLP (Natural Language Processing)

• NLP in Python (youtube video)

Machine Learning Resources

• MIT's Intro to Deep Learning, course
• Mathematical Underpinnings, video from Andrew Ng
• Keras & TensorFlow, video
• Resources in ML, DL, RL, and NLP