What can Python 🐍 do for me?

Become a power user on your computer

Ideas

• A script that generates a report and sends to business stakeholders in one click
• Convert data from a spreadsheet to a web dashboard
• Track your own investment return over time

Best place to start

Google "Automate boring stuff with Python"

👉 https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

How do I start?

1. Install Python

• Personal: https://www.python.org/

• Corporate:  depends on your IT policy

2. Popular ways to run Python

1. From command line: python your_script.py
2. Use Jupyter https://jupyter.org/
   • I recommend Jupyter Lab (pip install jupyterlab)
   • Let's try it

The ecosystem

PyPI (pip install ...) 

https://pypi.org/

How to Google?

1. Python [what I want to do] tutorial
2. Python [package] [error]
3. ...