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I'm trying to learn coding for personal use. I'm not a coder at all by trade, but work regularly w/ software engineers and managers. I know basic SQL for work but am looking at taking things to the next level in terms of automating reports and crawling external information (social, search)
I'm looking at self-guided learning for a new language and wanted input on where to start.
Broadly, use cases I'm interested in building:
*Automating report pulling (e.g., replace my human actions with automation - go to an internal company file, pull this data; merge data from internal company report published from SQL query, format data XYZ way)
*Custom reporting for stock / crypto that is gaining in social media mentions - eventually some kind of sentiment analysis
*Custom reporting for crawling YouTube videos to pull the following data: videos with a term in the title (e.g., company brand name), creator, # of subscribers for creator, video title, video link, video view count
*Search term trends (imagine Google trends, but more flexibility in output, using external data)
I think Python is where it makes sense to start with the above as my primary use cases - but curious. Maybe these aren't even the right questions.
I'm looking at self-guided learning for a new language and wanted input on where to start.
Broadly, use cases I'm interested in building:
*Automating report pulling (e.g., replace my human actions with automation - go to an internal company file, pull this data; merge data from internal company report published from SQL query, format data XYZ way)
*Custom reporting for stock / crypto that is gaining in social media mentions - eventually some kind of sentiment analysis
*Custom reporting for crawling YouTube videos to pull the following data: videos with a term in the title (e.g., company brand name), creator, # of subscribers for creator, video title, video link, video view count
*Search term trends (imagine Google trends, but more flexibility in output, using external data)
I think Python is where it makes sense to start with the above as my primary use cases - but curious. Maybe these aren't even the right questions.