Today was the first official day of my Independent Study!
For some background, I discovered computer programming last year, and have been learning as much as I can from a variety of programs. This summer, I attended a summer camp and a online class, so I learned a lot of object-oriented Java, data structures, and algorithms. At the start of the school year, I found myself in a programming class that covered material I already knew, thanks to my summer work. I discussed with my teacher and guidance counselor, and was lucky enough to get the opportunity to work with Energize Andover as an Independent Study. For the past couple days, I had been informally working on tutorials for a data science library called Pandas, which is used with Python to analyze data stored in a table-like format (CSV files). I was able to finish the third and final part of the tutorials today. So far, I’ve learned how to use a myriad of functions, from counting and summing columns to maximum and minimum to mean and median to merging and sorting. One challenge I faced was adapting the lesson to a slightly different environment -- while the tutorial assumes you use Jupyter Notebook, we use PyCharm IDE at Energize Andover. Overall, the tutorials were a great learning resource, and I can't wait to use these in real-world applications! Comments are closed.
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