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Slouching toward Quantopian 2, dragging Q1 along
Steve Grayson
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Hello,

As a novice here, I find it difficult to get up to speed, for one big reason: I don't know if the cloned algo's I'm studying are any good.

I don't mean in terms of p and l, but in terms of best coding practices.
It seems like Quantopian has introduced a lot of new great stuff over the last 18 months, but I'm drowning trying to figure out if I'm learning how to write algos using outdated techniques.

Pipeline, then Pipeline Classifiers, now Quantopian 2...

I don't know about anyone else, but I would love to see a half of dozen canonical yet simple examples that demonstrate current best practices. Then, as you introduce new features, you can comment out the old code and introduce the new way to do things. As a student, I would find this extremely helpful.

Thanks for listening!

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Deleted User

Steve,

I am a python noobie myself, but think the community algos provided for Q2 are probably the best source of "best practice" algos we could ask for. Check out this forum:

https://www.quantopian.com/posts/community-algorithms-migrated-to-quantopian-2

Jon Taylor

In terms of coding style, I found this https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html immensely helpful. If it's good enough for Google, then it certainly is good enough for me!

Jean Bredeche

Another good resource is the new Getting Started page: https://www.quantopian.com/tutorials/getting-started. It's part of our revamped Learn and Support page.

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Jamie McCorriston

Steve,

Jean is right, the Getting Started tutorial is the ideal place to start learning. Once you get through that, the list of sample algorithms in the help documentation is up-to-date with Q2. The algos on that list vary in complexity so you might find it helpful to look through them.

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