Free Python Intro Materials for Experienced R and/or Expert SAS Programmers

Lulu Yan
1 min readFeb 1, 2024

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Gone were the days of creating fancy macro codes and layers of GREPLAY in SAS, I am so thankful that there’s a little similarity between R (the statistical programming tool I lived on in grad school and for some work in more academic settings) and Python that makes it easy to read other’s Python code, but here are some resources I found helpful when making the language switch to be more seamless with current demands.

Getting started with Python for R developers
http://n-s-f.github.io/2017/03/25/r-to-python.html

Python Tricks: The Book — dbader.org
https://dbader.org/products/python-tricks-book/

Python for R Users: https://www.datacamp.com/courses/python-for-r-users

Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp | Udemy
https://www.udemy.com/python-for-data-science-and-machine-learning-bootcamp/

Dive Into Python 3
http://www.diveintopython3.net/

Review of Algorithms using Python:

If you find anything else great missing, please feel free to comment or message me on LinkedIn. Happy learning!

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Lulu Yan

Visionary Data Scientist; Intellectual Adventurist; Avocationist for HealthTech in Integrative Medicine: WeCare Holistic, Herbal-Pal® & Denti-Pal®