December 2017
Beginner to intermediate
410 pages
12h 45m
English
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B. Command Line
Having some familiarity with the command line can go a very long way. My main suggestion is to go though the Software-Carpentry Unix Shell lesson.1 “Navigating Files and Directories” is probably the most important lesson there for this book, but learning about “Shell Scripts” is also important when you are running your Python code from the command line.
1. http://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/
Since this book is mainly a Python book about Pandas, I won’t be able to go over all of the topics in learning the Unix Shell. The main takeaway I want to convey in this appendix is the notion of a “working directory.”
B.1 Installation
For the most part, if you are on a Mac or Linux system, you will already have access to the Bash ...