C
Command Line
Having some familiarity with the command line can go a very long way. My main suggestion is to go through the Software-Carpentry Unix Shell lesson.1 The “Navigating Files and Directories” episode (i.e., lesson) is probably the most important lesson there for this book, but learning about “Shell Scripts” is also important when you are running your Python code from the command line.
1. https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/
Since this book is mainly a Python book about Pandas, I won’t be able to go over all of the topics in learning the Unix Shell. The main takeaway I want to convey in this appendix is the notion of a “working directory”.
C.1 Installation
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