[Tutor] How to present python experience (self-taught) to potential employer
Hi everyone, This is Jing and I am a recent college graduate with Biology and Public Health background. I'm currently learning python on my own when i have time off from my PH internship. There's a job posting that looks really idea for me in the near future (a PH Research position) that requires "Python experience" and I wonder if any of you have any suggestions how I can demonstrate my python skills if I'm learning it on my own as opposed to taking courses? Some people had previously suggested GitHub, but it seems to only show my abilities to read python code and detect bugs, but not abilities to write python code. Some others suggested doing a project of my own, but I don't currently have any data or problem to solve in my field. Thanks so much! Jing ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] python tutoring
Hi Trent, I was once wondering about the similar question, but I discovered that Python has a huge user group (stationed across the world) and here's a site that includes the local links to all the user groups around the world, South Korea is included! You can probably find help locally from there. http://wiki.python.org/moin/LocalUserGroups#Korea On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Fowler, Trent wrote: > Hello, > > Not long ago I came across the website of a professional programmer > offering python tutoring services: > > http://www.jeffknupp.com/python-tutoring/ > > I have attempted to contact him because I am interested but I've been > unable to get in touch. I was wondering if anyone knew of people offering > similar services. I am a self-starter and highly motivated, but I live in > a small town in South Korea and I don't have any friends who program. > Since I also don't have a computer science background and python is my > first language, I really need someone who can help me with the beginning > stages. Often times when I run into a problem not only do I not know how > to solve it, I don't even know how to ask the questions that will help > someone else solve it. > > I don't want to be spoon-fed, just gently nudged and guided. I'm on a > budget but I'd be willing to pay for a good teacher. Preliminary googling > has turned up precious little, so I thought someone here might be able to > point me in the right direction. > > Thanks, > > -Trent. > ___ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] How to present python experience (self-taught) to potential employer
@Amit Thank you for your suggestions! I'll look into the data there and see if there's something relevant that I can use to do a project. Yes I believe it would involve some data analysis (and I may need to learn R as well or use RPy). Do you think one project is sufficient to demonstrate my skills if it's in-depth? Or does it take several projects? @Japhy Thanks for your response. I don't really mean that I can't think of any problems in my fields of study, but rather that I'm inexperienced in selecting a specific problem that's appropriate (not too simple or complex) to work with based on my current Python experience. I agree that python skills are demonstrated through writing though. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Amit Saha wrote: > Hi Jing Ai, > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Jing Ai wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > This is Jing and I am a recent college graduate with Biology and Public > > Health background. I'm currently learning python on my own when i have > time > > off from my PH internship. There's a job posting that looks really idea > for > > me in the near future (a PH Research position) that requires "Python > > experience" and I wonder if any of you have any suggestions how I can > > demonstrate my python skills if I'm learning it on my own as opposed to > > taking courses? > > > > Some people had previously suggested GitHub, but it seems to only show my > > abilities to read python code and detect bugs, but not abilities to write > > python code. Some others suggested doing a project of my own, but I > don't > > currently have any data or problem to solve in my field. > > I am not from your background. In your field of work do you need to do > lot of data analysis (read statistical analysis)?. Do you think you > could find something like that and something of your interest? You > could then use Python (the language and related tools) to perform data > analysis, presenting data graphically, etc to work the data and infer > some relevant conclusions. For example, http://www.quandl.com/ has > data sets related to various fields of study. > > Does that sound like something you may find interesting and is relevant? > > Best, > Amit. > -- > http://echorand.me > ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Using Regular Expression to extracting string in brackets on a list
Hello, I am trying to rewrite some contents on a long list that contains words within brackets and outside brackets and I'm having trouble extracting the words within brackets, especially since I have to add the append function for list as well. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you! *An example of list*: ['hypothetical protein BRAFLDRAFT_208408 [Branchiostoma floridae]\n', 'hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha [Mus musculus]\n', 'hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha [Gallus gallus]\n' ] *What I'm trying to extract out of this*: ['Branchiostoma floridae', 'Mus musculus', 'Gallus gallus'] ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Using Regular Expression to extracting string in brackets on a list
Thank you all for the suggestions! I decided to use Steven's re loop in the end. Joel, what i meant earlier was that the link you sent seems to suggest me to replace some characters in the list and I'm not sure how it would work... On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Jing Ai wrote: > >> Thanks, but I don't think I can get out the string in the brackets by >> only replacing other items...(there's too many things to replace and may >> interfere with the items within the string). >> >> >> > > I am not sure what you mean by your previous sentence. Check out Steven's > excellent answer. Also, remember to reply to the list, or no one will see > your question. > > Good luck > >> >> >> >> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Joel Goldstick > > wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Jing Ai wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I am trying to rewrite some contents on a long list that contains words >>>> within brackets and outside brackets and I'm having trouble extracting the >>>> words within brackets, especially since I have to add the append function >>>> for list as well. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you! >>>> >>>> *An example of list*: >>>> >>>> ['hypothetical protein BRAFLDRAFT_208408 [Branchiostoma floridae]\n', >>>> 'hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha [Mus musculus]\n', 'hypoxia-inducible >>>> factor 1-alpha [Gallus gallus]\n' ] >>>> >>> >>> Is the above line a python list, or is it what you get when you read a >>> line of a data file. The reason I ask, is if it is a list you can split >>> the list by looping of each list item. Then just maybe try some of these >>> ideas: >>> >>> >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10017147/python-replace-characters-in-string >>> >>>> *What I'm trying to extract out of this*: >>>> >>>> ['Branchiostoma floridae', 'Mus musculus', 'Gallus gallus'] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ___ >>>> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >>>> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Joel Goldstick >>> http://joelgoldstick.com >>> >> >> > > > -- > Joel Goldstick > http://joelgoldstick.com > ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
