Environment (Saturn Cloud) Overview, Jupyter

Notebook Walkthrough
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[00:00:07.63] RYAN AHMED: Hello, everyone, and welcome to this lesson. In this lesson, I'm
going to provide you with an overview of the Practical Skills module outline, and then I'm going
to show you a walk through our Jupyter Notebooks. And these are the notebooks that we are
going to use to run Python code.

[00:00:26.29] So the Practical Skills module on Python Programming Fundamentals starts with
the CFA Institute's candidate code of conduct, and then we cover key learning outcomes,
environment setup, and Jupyter Notebook walkthrough, and then we cover the frequently asked
questions. Afterwards, the Practical Skills module contains five units. In the first unit, we cover
Python Programming Fundamentals, part one. So we cover the variable assignments, math
operations, data types, and then we cover the print operation and how to get user input.

[00:01:03.01] Afterwards, in unit number 2, we're going to cover Python Programming

[00:01:37.92] Afterwards, in unit 4, we're going to cover data wrangling and analysis with
Pandas. First, we're going to cover what do you mean by Pandas, how to handle missing data
with Pandas. And then we'll learn about dataframe filtering and sorting. And then we're going to
cover Pandas data frames and functions, and then we'll learn how to perform Pandas data frames
concatenation and merging. And then finally, we'll learn how to get financial market data.

[00:02:08.71] Afterwards, in unit 5, we're going to have our final capstone project. So we'll learn
how to calculate percentage daily returns, how to analyze individual stocks, how to analyze
portfolios as well, to learn how to visualize various stocks using various Python libraries. We'll
learn how to do portfolio weights generation, how to perform asset allocation. And then, finally,
we'll learn how to run Monte Carlo simulations and perform portfolio optimization.

[00:02:39.79] All right. Next, I would like to give you a quick introduction to Jupyter
Notebooks. The Jupyter Notebooks are interactive computational environments that empower
developers to create and share code, text, equations, and visualizations in one place. Here is a
link to Jupyter home page. So if you click on this link here, that is going to open Jupyter
homepage. And then if you scroll down, I wanted to show you what Jupyter Notebooks look like.

[00:03:09.70] So this is what Jupyter Notebooks looks like. As I mentioned, you can include text
data here. You can also include equations as well. You can also write your code here in Python
or other programming language. You can also see the output that is generated after you run or
execute your code. So Jupyter Notebooks offer various features. First, you can use it to support
over 40 programming languages. Of course, this Practical Skills module is only going to focus
on Python programming language, but if you'd like to code in R or any other programming
language, you can also use Jupyter Notebooks.

[00:03:50.06] Notebooks can also be shared with others using email, dropbox, or Github. Again,
that's the power of Jupyter Notebooks. You can include everything you need in one place and
easily share it with other people. Next, your code can produce rich interactive outputs. So you
can include images, videos, HTML. And you can also leverage Jupyter Notebooks if you'd like
to do big data integration. You can leverage big data tools such as Apache Spark from Python, R,
or Scala as well.

[00:04:24.10] All right. So let me show you how you can launch Jupyter Notebooks in our
Practical Skills module. But before I do that, I would like to highlight two important information.
The first one is that this Practical Skills module is designed so students can learn by doing. Every
lesson has its own practice opportunity associated with it. And then here, you will find the
practice opportunity solution lecture. So I strongly recommend that you attempt to solve the
practice opportunity first on your own, and then you can compare your answers to mine
afterwards.

[00:04:59.41] The second point that I would like to elaborate on is that you won't be able to
proceed, let's say, from unit 2 to unit 3 before you watch all the video lectures and then complete
the knowledge check or the quiz at the end of the unit. So after you do that, then you will find
unit 3, for example, will be unlocked for you, and you will be able to access it.

[00:05:23.86] OK. So let me show you a quick example. Let's assume that I would like to study
Python dictionaries as an example. So if you click on lesson 2.2 here, see that first, we start with
a quick introduction to the lesson, what are the key learning objectives that we are going to cover
in this lesson. And then [AUDIO OUT] lecture here. So I strongly recommend that you go ahead
and watch the video lecture.

[00:05:49.68] You have the option to download a transcript of that video in a Microsoft Word
document format. And then afterwards, here's the practice opportunity that I'm referring to. In
order for you to launch this practice opportunity, you need to go ahead and click here on this
link. That is going to direct you to the Jupyter Notebook associated with that lesson. Please note
that this might take a minute or so for the Jupyter notebook to start, so please just practice some
patience with it.

[00:06:20.02] And here we go. So you will find the Jupyter Notebook for Python dictionaries, as
an example. And that's what Jupyter Notebooks look like. As I mentioned, you can include
everything you need in one place. So here, I have the course slides embedded in the Jupyter
Notebook. You can also see here we have the code cell as well. So all of these are code cells.

[00:06:44.14] And you can see here the practice opportunity. So in order for you to solve the
practice opportunity or write your own code, you would need to write your code here. And then
afterwards, you can simply compare your answers to the solution that I included at the end of the
notebook here. And, of course, you can go ahead and watch the video lecture associated with it.

[00:07:07.36] And that's it. That's all I have for this video. I hope you enjoyed it, and see you in
the next video.

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