Corey Schafer Corey Schafer is one of the best people on YouTube to learn the intricacies of Python from. His tutorials are highly in-depth and cover a wide range of topics.

Deciding to learn a programming language is one thing, but if you having trouble deciding where to get started, Microsoft has a new 44-part video series that aims to teach beginners Python.

Unlike R, Python has no clear “winning” IDE. We recommend Spyder because it is well-designed for scientific computing and the popular packages associated with this type of work (NumPy, SciPy, pandas, ...