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Python's importance to today's tech can't be overstated. It has become the go-to language for machine learning, in part because of its wealth of software libraries like NumPy.

Microsoft has released two more Python series for beginners in the form of two three-hour courses on YouTube, which add to the 44-part Python for Beginners series it released last fall.

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