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Philipp Kats
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Philipp Kats is a researcher at the Urban Complexity Lab, NYU CUSP, a research fellow at Kazan Federal University, and a data scientist at StreetEasy, with many years of experience in software development. His interests include data analysis, urban studies, data journalism, and visualization. Having a bachelor's degree in architectural design and a having followed the rocky path (at first) of being a self-taught developer, Philipp knows the pain points of learning programming and is eager to share his experience.
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David Katz is a researcher and holds a Ph.D. in mathematics. As a mathematician at heart, he sees code as a tool to express his questions. David believes that code literacy is essential as it applies to most disciplines and professions. David is passionate about sharing his knowledge and has 6 years of experience teaching college and high school students.
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Understanding classes

You can think of classes as blueprints for their instances—for example, a Car class will describe the generic properties of a car, while a specific instance of this class will describe a particular car with its own characteristics. As such, classes provide a way to store information and related functions linked to the instances. In our example, the Car class can store a drive function in its body, which will rely on the gasoline value for each specific instance. This approach is extremely useful when we describe systems of entities, whether a representation of a physical object (Car), personal information (Contact), or some abstract entity (web page representation).

Let's start with the syntax. Take a look at this example:

class Person:
'''person entity'''
greeting = 'Hi {0}. My name is {1}!'
def...
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Philipp Kats

Philipp Kats is a researcher at the Urban Complexity Lab, NYU CUSP, a research fellow at Kazan Federal University, and a data scientist at StreetEasy, with many years of experience in software development. His interests include data analysis, urban studies, data journalism, and visualization. Having a bachelor's degree in architectural design and a having followed the rocky path (at first) of being a self-taught developer, Philipp knows the pain points of learning programming and is eager to share his experience.
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David Katz

David Katz is a researcher and holds a Ph.D. in mathematics. As a mathematician at heart, he sees code as a tool to express his questions. David believes that code literacy is essential as it applies to most disciplines and professions. David is passionate about sharing his knowledge and has 6 years of experience teaching college and high school students.
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