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From readers of the Learn to Code with Sports books.
The book here was really, really well done.
It helped me way more than my grad school class did.
I wanted to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude for your book. I studied electrical and electronic engineering in university, and one area I really struggled with was coding. I made several attempts at courses in Python but struggled, failure becoming an all-too-familiar 'friend'. Your book has changed this! You have done a fantastic job and helped me tremendously in overcoming a challenge that's been weighing on me for over 15 years.
Your ability to look at complex things and break them down into their simple parts in real time is rare.
This is amazingly awesome. I've recently slowly crept into data science driven by a pet passion for fantasy sport analytics. The way the learning is framed here is 10x what you'll get someplace else.
I've been fascinated by sports and statistics from a young age. Throughout my college career, no professor was able to get me excited about a subject matter like the first 20 pages of this book.
Blending my outside interests with my tech expertise never felt so fun. I used fantasycoding.com by Nathan Braun to analyze stats — a great way to learn more about scraping data and creating visualizations that matter with Python. Nathan was super great in guiding you through the process.
I bought your book quite some time ago but hadn't dug in until now. Wow. Nice work — I mean that. As a former teacher and once-upon-a-time coder, I really appreciate how you go about this.
Probably the best / most complete Pandas walk through I've seen.
I really loved your book. You did an amazing job on it. I've been trying to get my son more into programming, and your book has been perfect — it really clicked for him.
I picked up more, and at a better pace, using this than a lot of the free online tools I'd been trying the past few months.
I have always wanted to learn a language but always seemed to get discouraged by the 'Hello World' chapters that were never ending. I like that your book cuts out the riff raff and teaches the important things! I'm flying through the book and feel like I'm learning a ton! Best wishes from a satisfied customer.
I have tons of coding books. Yours is a favorite.
Dear Nate, I'd like to thank you for a brilliant book. It's distilled, without extra and unnecessary info, and challenging at the same time. I'm writing you just to thank you.
Much more engaging for me personally because it's info I'm interested in. I've taken automate the boring stuff, python for finance, etc and while those courses are great, I seem to be understanding it better because it's about a subject I like.
I really like your approach to teaching data science! I usually work with R, and your book is one of the resources I'm using to teach myself Python. So far it's the best one!
The only Python course that's kept me engaged from beginning to end.
Been loving your book so far, it progresses at a great pace and has easily been the best mode I've used to understand coding. I'm excited to learn more, thank you for creating this book that's allowing me to have fun learning again, it's been ages.
Thank you Nathan... You ARE an amazing teacher!
Can I just say that this is the simplest and best explanation I have ever seen... Awesome!!
I was amazed by how you broke down complicated concepts and made them easier to understand.
I can't tell you how many times I've tried to get into programming and gave up because it was so dry. This has been such a nice change of pace and I'm loving it.
Exactly what I needed to finally get past tutorial hell and apply Python to something I love.
It's been a great refresher for basic Python... I appreciate the Anki cards, they're helping cement the terminology.
It helped me tremendously... I wouldn't be where I'm at with the Python language today without this book to kick start things.
Very engaging so far compared to some of the other online resources I've tried to pick this up with.
I could not be more satisfied with the content. It has been great to work through your in-depth examples learning new skills. I had a previous interest in this sort of analysis and intermediate programming experience, but never could tie the two together.
Incredible work! Bought it right away. Only 3 chapters in and this book is already better than expected. Worth every penny. Thank you!
An excellent resource. I like your writing style and the projects are fun and make it easy to learn.
The book is very well structured and easy to follow... I found it very helpful!
Very informative and a good intro to coding. Additionally, Nate would answer any questions I emailed him within 24 hours. Excellent customer service and pushed new editions to everyone who had already paid. I really appreciate Nate's commitment to his product.
Loving it so far. I don't know if it's because I love basketball, how simple you make it to learn, your approach to teaching, or some combination — but it will probably be the reason I learn to code.
Can definitely recommend it. It's so much easier learning coding with a subject that is familiar and one is passionate about. Thank you!
Very well put together. I've been needing a good excuse to strengthen my pandas and python skills and this looks like the perfect catalyst for me.
First, I'd just like to say how much I love the book and truly appreciate that something like this exists. I have been working through a variety of materials to build my Python skills and get more into the field, and this has been tremendously helpful.
The course is going well. I like how you bring out patterns in the commands. Makes it so much easier.
I'm flying through your book and loving every bit of it so far. The way you lay everything out is incredibly intuitive and easy to follow.
I'm brand new to coding. I used to be a stock broker and currently a personal trainer. Very excited to take a crack at this. I read your free chapters and felt like my brain could do well with data science. Thanks for opening a new door.
I really am impressed with how simply you explained it, and how much clearer it made it for me to grasp the concept. I had come across your book somewhere on the internet and was a little curious, but now seeing how well you explain things, I am seriously considering purchasing it.
I bought this for my 18 year old who's playing junior hockey, looking for something to do in his spare time. He's having a good time going through the lessons and playing with hockey stats!
I happen to be finishing my Sports Management Degree and my final subject is on Data Analytics; I much prefer the learning style you created in the course.
Your writing style and presentation has been really intuitive for me.
I am going through the first chapter now and I love how you've explained everything in a simple yet effective way.
This is the first time I found a book to gradually introduce and explain the ideas!!! It seems that not only do you know the subject, but you have ways to teach it so it's understood and is pleasant and interesting!!!
I just want to thank you for creating this course — I have enjoyed every part of it. This is what learning is all about. Previous academic courses got me so disengaged... I loved this.
Thank you so much for this offering! I was wandering the proverbial forest trying to get going with advanced stats — I probably saved myself dozens of hours trying to piece this stuff together myself.
I am going through your book and find it very intuitive versus others.
I thought it was great! I really enjoyed the way you used soccer to teach programming concepts — it made the material much more engaging and relatable. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning Python or programming in general. Thank you for writing such a great book!
My son is already over 100 pages into the book and loving the material!