Just a big appreciation/ thank you post to the Quantopian team.
I'm currently a rising high school senior who's very interested in this field of study (and will be applying to colleges to pursue this as a career hopefully... wish me luck), and I've been trying to learn as much as I can on here
Quantopian has been an AWESOME resource for someone like me, who doesn't have much of an academic background in relevant subjects, but the one thing I've had the most trouble with is going about effectively using the documentation, to the point that it's hindered my productivity and resolve to sit down and work. I found the earlier iterations of the docs to be rather confusing and incomplete in some parts (ie, some details were mentioned in lectures or something, but not in the API reference), but the Alpha version that's now accessible is significantly better (go to data reference under Help, then API reference on the left side of the window). It's much more succinct, understandable, and less complicated while providing even more complete information. I can easily find what I want/ need to know to do what I want to do, and what took me 30 minutes now takes me 10 to figure out now that it's much more clearly organized and the information is segmented in an obvious manner.
Thank you guys so much for improving the docs. I can't wait til y'all finish updating them and send them live (would also be appreciated if there was an obvious way to get there by just going to the API reference under Help, rather than by navigating around it through the data reference; maybe an option in profile screen to default to using experimental/ alpha/beta features like this?).