C2_W1_Assignmentpp

I think this assignment is hard for me because i didn’t study pandas, matplotlip , or statics and i feel that somethin missing so to understand this assignment well do i have to study pandas and statics first ?? even though i understand the notion of optimization

They just use those utilities in the template code and you don’t really need to modify any of that. It would be nice to understand it, but it’s not required. It never hurts to spend some time learning about the various packages they use here, but the only requirement is that you be able to complete the required portions of the assignment.

So one approach would be rather than stress about pandas and matplotlib, try reading carefully the instructions for the functions that you actually need to complete and see if that is enough to get you to correct solutions.

Yeah, and I wouldn’t be too worried unless you are finding yourself completely stuck.

I mean I completed DLS, and now am on NLP. I don’t think Pandas is used at all in DLP, but is used in NLP-- they also leverage on other techniques in NLP like list/dictionary comprehension, which I hadn’t dealt with strictly before.

Of course none of these classes are ‘strictly programming’, so you might miss out on a thing or two if you don’t do your own research. But I think it is also useful to be challenged by new methods/ways of examining a problem.

Programming in general has an infinite number of those, but I can understand your sometimes feeling of struggle-- or ‘this method has not been explicitly taught to me, but now I’m asked to use it’.

I really hesitate to use it otherwise, but at the level given here, you can just copy/spit it out to ChatGPT and ask it to explain ‘what is this code doing’ ?

It usually does at least a basically decent job, or if nothing else will provide ideas to search for more information.

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