If you don't have any prior Python programming experience, the next section of the course is for you! It will get you up to speed on juuust enough Python to start doing cool stuff with Pandas in the next section...

However, even if you already know the basics of Python syntax, you should still watch the following lectures from this section in order to familiarize yourself with using Colab notebooks*:

• The Programming Environment
• Disabling Colab’s AI Tools
• Expressions in Colab
• Text Cells
• Colab Tips and Pitfalls

And even if you’re already familiar with Colab in addition to Python, you should STILL watch the video on disabling Colab’s AI tools!

*Colab notebooks are the environment in which we'll be writing literally all of our code in this course.