This week we were joined by Boris Paskhaver, a software developer, Agile consultant, online educator and author. Boris is based in New York City and has 240,000 students across 6 courses on the e-learning marketplace Udemy with over 1 million minutes of video content consumed monthly. In our discussion we talk about his upcoming book, *Pandas in Action*, as well as his own transition into coding. Boris was a data analyst before he was a software engineer, and found that Pandas was a great bridge between Excel and Python.
So what actually is "Pandas" (spoiler alert: it's "Excel on Steroids" for Python). Why does Pandas make for such a good introduction to coding in general? And would Boris recommend a bootcamp to other people looking to kickstart their tech career? Find out all this and more in this week's Excel-superseding instalment of A Question of Code.
Mentioned in this episode
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88: Top Tips review: document what you learn
87: Top Tips review: enjoy what you do
86: Top Tips review: just get things done!
85: Top Tips review: why should you build your own website?
84: Why should you own a rubber duck?
83: How do you get started with a new framework?
82: What is semantic markup?
81: What is an API?
80: What’s it like behind the scenes of a podcast?
79: How important are CS fundamentals? (with Vaidehi Joshi)
78: How can developers get better at design?
77: Should you use boilerplates?
76: CSS Revisited (Rapid Fire)
75: Why do you need a website of your own? (with Chris Coyier)
74: How do you get started with testing? (with Brian Okken)
73: Why is Python a good starting point for learning to code? (with Michael Kennedy)
72: CSS Extravaganza!
71: How should developers market themselves? (with Shawn Wang)
70: Is "become a developer" still good advice?
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