pre-course-reading.md

Miscellaneous Reading List

This reading list has introductions to a few concepts, tools and techniques that we'll be using in the course.

• Zip, List and Dictionary unpacking
  • On zip()
  • Unpacking Lists
  • Unpacking Arguments
  • More on packing and unpacking
• AWS getting started guide
• args and *kwargs
• On Classes and updating __dict__
• __name__ == '__main__'
• Python packages/modules - the init trick
• named tuple
  • A challenge
  • named tuples vs tuples
• Setting up your own spark cluster in AWS Part 1, Part 2
• Masternig Spark 2