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Section 1: Getting Started with Python

This section focuses on becoming familiar with general-purpose Python, making use of existing libraries, writing our first scripts, learning the basics of Git, and using the IDE. In this section, we will also lay the foundation for our projects, building pipelines to process (project 1), collect (project 2), and simulate (project 3) data.

This section comprises the following chapters:

Chapter 1, Preparing the Workspace
Chapter 2, First Steps in Coding – Variables and Data Types
Chapter 3, Functions
Chapter 4, Data Structures
Chapter 5, Loops and Other Compound Statements
Chapter 6, First Script – Geocoding with Web APIs
Chapter 7, Scraping Data from the Web with Beautiful Soup 4
Chapter 8, Classes and ...

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