I’ve accumulated a lot of instructional material (for Python) over the past couple of years, and it’s proving a challenge to develop a doable self instruction course. I don’t want to waste time on stuff I mostly know already, and also don’t want to get bogged down in material that is a bit too challenging at my current skill level. Also should I concentrate on pure Python programming, or on trading strategies, using Python to help make decisions? And what about web scraping or GUI development, that might help getting information from the world at large, and organizing my scripts in an easy-to-use graphic interface?
Anyway, I’ve recently decided to spend time with an actual book, Python Cookbook by David Beazley and Brian Jones. It’s not specifically geared towards trading, or even data science, but seems a good fit to improve my basic understanding of Python. The issue that I face is not that I need to develop sophisticated code, but that I need to be able to understand the sometimes quite sophisticated code that some authors/trainers/course creators use in their examples. So I need to be able to read code at a much higher level than I am ever likely to write.
I’ve pretty much decided to spend nearly all my time on this enterprise. I’ll be moving soon to a probably more expensive home and feel the need to actually generate some income, so trading is becoming a job rather than just a hobby. I’m still intending to let statistics (and maybe ML) inform my decisions, although I don’t plan to automate anything just yet.