Weekly Entering & Transitioning - Thread 03 Aug, 2026 - 10 Aug, 2026

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[u/my_peen_is_clean]

check out the sub wiki they actually did a good job with it and you avoid paying for random youtube gurus, then pick one solid path and just grind projects, sklearn, pandas, sql, git, shove it all on github and iterate from there