Journey to Become a Google Cloud Machine Learning Engineer

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Mastering Python Programming

Before we train a machine to learn, we need to teach it a language. Computers are very good at binary code since they were created to operate in zeros and ones. Human beings have invented a language compiler to compile a high-level language (such as Python) program into binary code so that a computer can run it. Python is a high-level language that is intuitive – it has a simplified syntax very similar to natural language. Python is widely used in solving problems using computer programming, especially in machine learning (ML).

In this chapter, we will start with a simple mathematical problem and show how Python can solve it directly and concisely. Understanding the solution will help us understand the Python basics, ...