Bootstrap Learning Python with R (ADDED FEE) — Professional Development Continuing Education Course
ASA
Python is one of the most popular programming languages in the world and it used heavily in
both computer science communities as well as industry as a language for developing software
systems. As libraries like numpy, pandas, sklearn, and tensorflow have become more popular it
has seen increased use in the data science community. As a result, Python has become an
important language for data scientists looking to expand their repertoire beyond R. This course
provides a working knowledge of the Python language along with its package. By carefully
covering analogous code, written in both R and Python, we will use the students understanding
of the R programming language to “bootstrap” Python programming constructs, data
structures, and control flows. After these concepts are established, we will explore some of the
more uniquely “Pythonic” languages quirks, advantages, and challenges. Students of this class
should have an intermediate-level knowledge of the R programming language.
