Links to additional material

There is a huge amount of amazing resources out there! From full-blown courses, to YouTube creators, from online workshops, to much, much more. We have aggregated a few resources here that you can explore at your leisure.

The best way to learn is by doing! Reading the resources below is a great start, but to really learn how to program, you have to start trying things out, and creating projects. For example, you could start by re-creating an existing piece of data analysis that you have previously completed in an Excel workbook, graphs and all. Maybe create a simple website to display your photos. This is how we all started.

Essentials

• Anaconda
• Official Python documentation

Web based coding

• Replit
• Exercism

Great Python websites

• Real Python Tutorials
• PythonProgramming.net
• freecodecamp.org
• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python

Some great Python courses

• Practical Python Programming
• University of Helsinki Data Analysis Course
• 30 days of Python

Research Software Engineering

• Our RSE friends at UCL have a great RSE-focused Python course
• Similarly, those at the the Alan Turing Institute have a similar one here
• Not just Python focused, The Turing Way is a fantastic guide to creating reproducible research

Specialised topics

These might be a bit more complex!

• Kaggle - data science competitions
• Web Development in Python
• Statistics and Scientific Computing with Python
• Machine Learning from Scratch
• Kalman and Bayesian filters in Python

YouTube

• General Python skills with ArjanCodes
• Introductory to advanced Python with sentdex