Thursday

Objectives

• Learn about and implement the quicksort algorithm
• Encounter the world of data science and machine learning with Python
• Get more practice handling code challenges

Readings

Data Science

• Machine Learning: What it is and Why it matters
• What is Data Science?
• Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
• A Complete Tutorial to Learn Data Science with Python from Scratch
• The Importance of Data Visualization

Other

• Overview of QuickSort

Review

• Taggit
• Merge Sort

Concepts

• Introduction to Machine Learning
  • Machine Learning Problems
  • Jupyter Notebook
  • Numpy
  • Matplotlib
  • Recap

• The Quick Sort Algorithm
• Whiteboard Challenge

Demo

• Quick Sort!!!

Assignments

• Implement Quick Sort
• Analyze a Data Set
• Group Project: Add a README
• Django Imager: Complete Front-End (Due Monday Week 9)
• Automate Deploying Imager with Ansible (Due Friday Week 9)
• Technical Blog Post: Publish Your Post (Due Friday Week 9)
• Today I learned...