Any thoughts, or suggestions to a better book of your thought
good books thread?
>>52038158
Yeah one of those thread, but more torwards web development
>>52038158
good books thread
>>52038206
is it a good intro? What are pre-requisites?
>>52038115
I have those books, they are pretty good
more books please
>>52038227
lol no, that book is incredibly dense and even grad math students won't go through it easily.
>>52038429
I have a master in civil engineering. I know a lot of math, though. what would i need to learn before tackling it?
>>52038477
stats, numerical linear algebra, probability
another python book, but this is pretty great for everything math related. including libraries like numpy, matplotlib, scipy and that sort of thing.
>>52038499
alright, cool. any programming prerequisites?
>>52038526
>>52038158
I'm getting into programming soon and I took a college course in web development that focused on PHP but I want to get into application development
what is python used for?
>>52038543
it's not a programming book
>>52038573
python is used for anything from web development, to creating software. It is mostly taught because it's easy to learn. Often used by scientists because it gets the job done, easy to learn and there are good scientific libraries.
You should check out this free course if you want to learn. It is the absolute best programming course ever: https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-computer-science--cs101
I shill this so hard because it has been so useful for me.
>>52038813
checking it out, thanks anon
>>52038227
Its an excellent reference book and gives it to you straight. instead of softening up the material
You have to know what you're looking at to get something out of it.
Why would anyone do that? Well lets say you have an ok idea of how a C4.5 decision tree algorithm works but are not sure how to formally define it in a way that gives you a good idea about how information entropy is utilized to speed it up. This book will give you the basics + much more.
