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
⚡️ How much time do you spending coding in a coding job?
⚡️ How long should you spend on a take home coding challenge?
⚡️ Tabs or spaces?
30: What do you get from going to a tech meetup?
29: What's wrong with developer culture?
28: How do you stay motivated?
27: How do you deal with crazy bugs?
26: What is functional programming?
25: Do you need to be good at maths to become a programmer?
24: Should you write about what you've learnt?
23: How do you write a good CV?
22: Why should you write tests?
⚡️ What does it mean to be a full stack developer?
⚡️ How closely should you match a job description before applying?
21: How do you get started with open source?
20: What's it like to attend a tech conference? (Live at Future Sync)
19: What's it like being a remote developer?
18: What's the interview process for a tech job?
17: How do you find a mentor?
16: When should you specialise?
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