A new year calls for a new topic (Python) on The Babylonians. Python for Finance would be a brand new 2020 series that I decide to embark on after my previous reflection. The reason is because I see the future of finance, or any industries for that matter, advancing towards this direction. Hence, I have decided to pick up some new skills to stay relevant and hopefully also employable.

To start off, I am a complete newbie in this. My background is in accountancy and I know VERY little about the world of programming. Except for a 2-month summer school in Istanbul learning C programming, which has become a language for academic purposes, I had zero experience in python.

Most of the learning was self-taught through online resources. So everything you see would be rather simple, basic and probably full of mistakes. Calling out to all experts out