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No. Learning Python is quick and simple compared to learning data science or machine learning. Knowing Python and Django (which I do) does not afford you any a
by mod 9y ago
No. Learning Python is quick and simple compared to learning data science or machine learning.
Knowing Python and Django (which I do) does not afford you any ability do to those things.
- touchofevil 9y agoInteresting. I assumed that spending more time working with Python would be beneficial, but I guess it's not a big deal. This is great to know, as I've been resistant to starting with Ruby/Rails for the reason I described. Thanks!
- hamandcheese 9y agoI don’t do machine learning or data science, so I’m assuming here, but I would imagine whatever you end up doing would be en entirely different service than your web stack and could be whatever language you wanted.
- mod 9y agoLearning Ruby would give you a big leg up over starting from scratch learning Python. I don't know if you are familiar with any programming languages at all, but many skills translate cross-language...the paradigms are the same. Particularly with Ruby & Python which are very similar languages. They're good at the same things, by and large. Taking your Ruby skills over to Python will be a matter of "google: [python thing] in ruby". For a specific example, Python has a unique thing called "list comprehensions". Using that google string you can get some great ideas about replicating that functionality in Ruby. Anyway, on a grander scale, picking up new languages is the easy part of programming--even when they're not so similar. Best of luck!