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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68: Are bootcamps worth doing? (with Kirsty Simmonds)
67: How can developers help fight climate change? (with Natalia Waniczek)
66: How do you get started in data science? (with Tom Sainsbury)
65: Should new developers get involved in open source? (with Jeremy Walker)
63: What is i18n? (with Eli Schutze)
62: What is it like to have a mentor? (with Amber Wilson)
61: What questions should you ask in an interview?
60: What is a resilient website? (with Jeremy Keith)
59: How do you prepare to give a presentation?
58: How do you run a remote conference?
57: Why is time so hard to work with?
56: How can you make code habitable?
55: Any tips and tricks for effective home working?
54: Why do people write "bad" code?
53: What are some good things to build?
52: What gear do you use?
51: What is a Minimum Viable Product?
50: What's so special about the command line?
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