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Tips on Learning Python From Zero

  Tips to learn Python from zero Practical tips to approach your learning process If you are planning to learn Python, how long and how smooth the learning process is going to be will depend on a number of factors such as: your background:  whether you have any previous exposure to other programming languages, specifically, object-oriented programming languages your commitment:  how much effort you are going to dedicate on a weekly basis your approach:  how you are going to learn 🍁 Recently, I was reflecting back when I first started learning Python seriously about a year ago. In this post, I share my top 5 tips on the third factor 🍁 that came from my reflection for those who are starting their journey. 1. Understand the basics - Understanding the basics of Python will provide you long-term benefits.  2.Write your code on paper.  3. Practice.  4. Contribute to open source.  5. Keep a regular check on Python programming sources.  6. Don't fo...

What is web scraping?

Web scraping is the process of collecting structured web data in an automated fashion. It’s also called web data extraction. Some of the   main use cases of web scraping   include price monitoring,   price intelligence , news monitoring,   lead generation , and   market research   among many others. In general, web data extraction is used by people and businesses who want to make use of the vast amount of publicly available web data to make smarter decisions. If you’ve ever copied and pasted information from a website, you’ve performed the same function as any web scraper, only on a microscopic, manual scale. Unlike the mundane, mind-numbing process of manually extracting data, web scraping uses intelligent automation to retrieve hundreds, millions, or even billions of data points from the internet’s seemingly endless frontier. How do you use a data scraper? Whether you’re using a data scraper tool yourself or outsourcing the job to a web data extraction sp...