{"id":89,"date":"2021-11-06T17:48:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T21:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josephmalkoun.com\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2021-11-06T17:49:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T21:49:54","slug":"python-from-hobby-to-current-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephmalkoun.com\/blog\/python-from-hobby-to-current-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"Python: from hobby to current profession"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My path has been complex:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I have studied Electrical Engineering during my undergraduate studies.<\/li><li>I have then studied Mathematics at the graduate level.<\/li><li>I have worked as a Mathematics Professor for about 7 years.<\/li><li>I am now a professional Python programmer.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Q: How did <em>that<\/em> happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A: Python started out as being a hobby of mine, maybe since 2014 or 2015. I first started using it because I was curious about it. My first programming language was C++. From my own humble point of view, I liked the fact that if you wanted to do some scientific programming, you had many official Python libraries to help you accomplish your work, such as Numpy, Scipy and Matplotlib. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: recently, I should mention that I really enjoyed the way the Julia programming language was doing things for scientific programming and I think that Julia may have a big impact on the scientific programming community in the near future. Time will tell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the above Python libraries, I have played around a bit with Panda, for data manipulation (a very useful library!), some libraries for automating tasks (which I have used to shuffle problems and answers for multiple choice exams) and I have played around a bit with Django (a Python library which enables you to interact with a database on a server, create Content Management Systems, restful APIs etc.). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have recently started working for a company as a Python programmer. I am now using virtual Python environments, a professional IDE for Python called PyCharm which is really helpful (I wonder why I was not using serious IDEs before!), pushing code onto a server using the magic of git and learning a lot in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is my story. Does it mean I will stop doing research in Mathematics? No. I mean it will be more difficult to find time for it though. I am enjoying programming though, so it is good! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My path has been complex: I have studied Electrical Engineering during my undergraduate studies. I have then studied Mathematics at the graduate level. I have worked as a Mathematics Professor for about 7 years. I am now a professional Python programmer. Q: How did that happen? A: Python started out as being a hobby of mine, maybe since 2014 or 2015. I first started using it because I was curious about it. My first programming language was C++. From my&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/josephmalkoun.com\/blog\/python-from-hobby-to-current-profession\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[20,21,9,19],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-python","tag-career-change","tag-mathematics","tag-programming","tag-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmalkoun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmalkoun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmalkoun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmalkoun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmalkoun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josephmalkoun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/josephmalkoun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmalkoun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmalkoun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmalkoun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}