So I didn’t really know what language to learn first, but I came across interesting machine learning use cases that I wanted to focus on.  These include supervised learning and unsupervised learning and projects such as a movie recommendation engine, house price prediction, human activity prediction, and credit card fraud detection.  These projects are actually all included in a course from Columbia University, but I don’t think I’ll enroll in it.  But the brochure indicated that all these use cases would use Python to perform the necessary functions.  So Python it is!  I might use the brochure as a guideline to find free projects.

There are many free resources out there to learn Python.  Here are a few.  I’ll probably go through these in the order below.

• Codecademy (10 hour intro)
• Udacity (6 week mini course)
• Learnpython.org (advanced tutorials)
• Data camp (100 practice challenger and 5 real world problems for free)