Hey Waylon, I have been following your posts for a while and have a question for you.
I talked to a buddy of mine who does Bioinfomatics and he told me that object oriented programming is not needed for data science. ie. don't spend too much time on it...
Q. What's your take on this?
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Do you need to know how to make your own classes? probably not. Do you need to create your own instances of objects and call methods on them? absolutely, that is what pandas is all about. Using OOP is much simpler than creating all your own custom classes, so the depth you NEED is failrly minimal.
Hey Waylon, I have been following your posts for a while and have a question for you.
I talked to a buddy of mine who does Bioinfomatics and he told me that object oriented programming is not needed for data science. ie. don't spend too much time on it...
Q. What's your take on this?
Do you need to know how to make your own classes? probably not. Do you need to create your own instances of objects and call methods on them? absolutely, that is what pandas is all about. Using OOP is much simpler than creating all your own custom classes, so the depth you NEED is failrly minimal.
Thanks I appreciate it.