More than just courses, your own Python mentor.

Your LernerPython membership gives you access to dozens of courses, with hundreds of hours of explanations from Reuven, who has been teaching programmers for more than 30 years.

Reuven’s courses focus less on syntax than on the ideas behind the syntax — the why, rather than the what — with an emphasis on why Python works the way it does. You’ll get clear, deep explanations, along with hundreds of exercises to test your fluency and understanding.

You’ll never learn to program just by watching someone else. Even the best explanations are worthless if you don’t practice. Reuven’s courses include hundreds of exercises, followed (just as importantly) by walk-throughs and explanations that point to commonly made mistakes and misconceptions. Beyond that, you have access to six 15-week Weekly Python Exercise cohorts, as well as new data-analysis problems every Wednesday in Bamboo Weekly.

When you join LernerPython, you get access to our online Discord server. Ask any questions you have about Python and Pandas, and someone (usually Reuven himself) will answer. Stuck on an exercise from one of our courses? Ask for help! Also: Get updates about upcoming office hours, members-only lectures, and special events.

Learning is best when it’s interactive. So every month, Reuven holds two live sessions on Zoom when you can ask any questions you have. Confused about a course? Can’t answer an exercise? Wondering about new features in Python or Pandas? Want to learn more about a Python module you’ve heard about at a conference?

• One session, about general Python topics, is open to all LernerPython subscribers.
• The second session, about Pandas, is open to LernerPython + Data subscribers.

All sessions are recorded; the recordings are usually available within a few hours of the session’s end, along with the Jupyter notebook Reuven used to live-code his answers.

Don’t have questions, and just want to lurk? That’s great; you’re welcome to join us, too!

Every month, Reuven gives two lectures exclusively for members of the LernerPython community:

• One lecture, about Python and related technologies, is open to all subscribers
• A second lecture, about Pandas and data-related technologies, is for LernerPython+Data subscribers

Subscribers have access to all previous lectures. Topics have included topics as the Unix command line, concurrent Pandas solutions (e.g., Modin and Dask), how assignment works in Python, how to use method chaining in Pandas, and much, much more. If there’s a topic you want to learn more about, then just ask — many previous lectures were suggested by other subscribers.

A LernerPython+data subscription gives you access to Bamboo Weekly, with new deep-dive data-analysis problems. Challenge yourself to read data from real-world (and dirty, incomplete, and poorly documented) data sets. Get better with techniques ranging from window functions to pivot tables, method chaining to regular expressions, data cleaning to multi-indexes. Get a new set of questions every Wednesday, based on a topic in the news, and explanations every Thursday, along with downloadable notebooks. You also get access to more than 100 back issues of Bamboo Weekly, to challenge yourself even further.