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Nigeria, often referred to as the "Giant of Africa," is a nation with vast potential yet beset by numerous economic challenges. To chart a path toward sustained growth and development in 2024, Nigeria must adopt a comprehensive economic plan that addresses key issues such as diversification, infrastructure development, human capital, and sustainable governance.

I. Diversification of the Economy:
One of Nigeria's most pressing economic concerns is its heavy reliance on oil exports. To reduce vulnerability to fluctuations in global oil prices and foster long-term economic stability, Nigeria should prioritize diversification. This can be achieved through:

Agriculture: Invest in modernizing agriculture, promoting value addition, and expanding access to credit for farmers.
Manufacturing: Encourage local production and industrialization, attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) through favorable policies.
Technology and Innovation: Foster a robust tech ecosystem to nurture startups and drive innovation, creating new industries and jobs.

II. Infrastructure Development:
A strong and reliable infrastructure network is pivotal for economic growth. Nigeria's plan for 2024 should concentrate on:

Power Generation: Address the chronic power shortages through increased investment in renewable energy sources and modernization of the power grid.
Transportation: Upgrade road, rail, and port infrastructure to reduce transportation costs and facilitate trade.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT): Expand broadband access and improve digital infrastructure to drive e-commerce and digital services.

III. Human Capital Development:
Nigeria's most valuable resource is its people. To unlock the nation's potential, the economic plan should prioritize:

Education: Invest in quality education, vocational training, and skills development to empower the workforce and enhance employability.
Healthcare: Strengthen healthcare systems to improve the well-being of citizens and reduce the economic burden of disease.
Job Creation: Support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurship to generate employment opportunities, especially for youth.

IV. Sustainable Governance:
Effective governance is essential to ensure that economic policies are implemented efficiently and transparently. In 2024, Nigeria should focus on:

Anti-corruption Measures: Strengthen institutions that combat corruption and promote accountability in both the public and private sectors.
Fiscal Responsibility: Implement prudent fiscal policies that prioritize public spending on critical areas while curbing wasteful expenditure.
Regulatory Reforms: Simplify and streamline regulations to attract foreign investment and foster a business-friendly environment.

V. International Collaboration:
Nigeria should actively engage in regional and international partnerships to boost economic growth. This includes:

Trade Agreements: Actively participate in regional trade agreements to expand market access for Nigerian goods and services.
Investment Promotion: Collaborate with international organizations to attract FDI and stimulate economic development.
Diplomacy: Foster diplomatic relationships that facilitate economic cooperation and access to foreign market.

Nigeria's economic plan for 2024 must be bold, comprehensive, and forward-thinking. By prioritizing diversification, infrastructure development, human capital, sustainable governance, and international collaboration, Nigeria can set itself on a path towards economic prosperity, reduced poverty, and improved living standards for its citizens. The successful implementation of such a plan will require strong leadership, commitment, and a sustained effort from all stakeholders.

If-Else-For statement

If statement: is used to check a condition is true, if true it moves to perform s given function

#Practice 8a
age=60
if age < 50:
print ( "Group1" )
print ( "done with if" )
#evaluates as false 'cos age is less than 50


age=60
if age < 70:
print ( "Group1" )
print ( "done with if" )
#evaluates as true 'cos age is less than 70



If_else Statement: this a statement that resolves to the else statement when the if statement isnot true.

#Practice 8b

age =60
if age<50:
print( "Group1" )
else:
print ( "Group2" )
print ( "Done with if else" )


Multiple esle if statement : Multiple else condition in if

#Practice 8c

marks=75
if (mark<30):
print( "fail" )
elif(marks <50):
print ( "Second Class" )
elif (marks <80):
print ( "First Class" )
elif (marks <80):
print( "Distinction" )
else:
print( "Error in Marks" )


Nested if statement:

#Practice 8d

x = 45

if (x<50):
print ( "Number is less than 50" )
if (x<40):
print ("Number is lelss than 40" )
if (x<30):
print ( "Number is less than 30" )
else:
print ( "Number is greater than 30" )
else:
print ( "Number is greater than 40" )
else:
print ( "Number is greater than 50" )


# For loop
"""" For loop is a iteration statement
It allows code block to be repated certain number of times
Generally we see a for loop being iterating through a list """

syntax:
for <variable> in <sequence>:
<code block>


#Practice 8e
#Example_1
my_num = 1
for i in range(1,20):
my_num= my_num +1
print("my num vslue is", my_num)

#Eample 2
sumx = 0
for x in range(1,20):
sumx =sumx + x
print (sumx)


#Eample 3
a_list = [1,5,7,9,6,8]
for x in a_list:
print (x*2)




# Break Statement
To stop execution of a loop
stopping the loop in midway using condition

#Practice 9
sumx = 0
for x in range (1,200):
sumx =sumx + x
if (sumx>500):
break
print(sumx)



# Function
"""
A function is a piece oc code, which takes input values and returns a result.
function can be used again with different values.
instead of rewriting the whole code. it's much cleaner todefine a function, which can be used repeatedly.
Function improves modularity of a program.
Function are also known as Method.
"""


Function syntax:
Function has two components:
Header
Body

The header has two components
Function Name
Input Parameters
Body consit of thr procedure, which we want the function to carry out

#Practice 10
#Example:
def square(a):
c=a**a
return

square(15)
square (10)
square (3)
square (4)



#Test question:
write a function that receives 2 variables as inputs
and returns the remainder when variable 1 is divided by variable 2

def remainder ( var1, var2):
a= var1%var2
print (a)

locust:
Is Anaconda a text editor or an IDE? I need to know because Python wouldn't install on my laptop. I'm using my phone to learn python, with pydroid3.
Should I move on and download anaconda on my laptop? It's like the Spyder console is built in? I think the Spyder console is the text editor?

Like I mentioned in one of my post, Anaconda is a collection of tools including IDE for python programming, when this is installed you don't need to intall python anymore....
When installed you can benefit of its Spyder IDE, jupyter notebook, etc.

Also its multiplatform so you can run it on windows, Linux and apple OS of your choice

Assinging and Naming Convention:
= is the Assigning operator

Practice 2:
income = 12000
income
print (income)
x=20
x
y=30
y
z= x*y
z
name="jack"
name
print(name)
# del, this deletes the varialbe x
del x





Printing:
# Practice 3:
name = "jack"
name
print (name)
#Note there is a diffrence in the output when using print
book_name = "practical business Anlytics \n uaing SAS"
book_name
print (book name)




Naming Convention:
Must start with a letter (either upper case A-Z or lower case a-z
can contain letters, digits (0-9) and underscore

1x=20 wrong
x1=20 correct
x.1=20 wrong
x_1=20 correct


Objects:
Objects refer to any enitity in python Program
Having a good knowledge on these basic ojects is essential to being confortable python programming
Type of Objects:
Numbers
Stringgs
List
Tuples
Dictionaries



Practice 4:
age-30
age
weight=102.88
weight
x=17
x**2 #ie: square of x



Strings:
Strings are amongst the most popular objects in Python, there are a number of method or built in string fuctions

Defining
name= "Sheldon"
msg=statinfer Data Science Classes

Acessing Strings
print (name [0])
priny [name {1}]

this is as good as subtring
print(msg[0:9])

lenght of string
len(msg)
Print (msg[10:len(msg)])


list:
List is a hybrid datatype. A sequence of related data, similar to array, but all elements need not ne of same type.

Practice 5
#creating a list:
mylist1= ['Sheldon', 'Male', 25]
mylist1
#Accessing the list elements
mylist1[0]
mylist1[1]
mylist1[2]
#How to combine 2 list together
mylist2= ['LA', 'no 27', CR18754]
Final_List= mylist1 + mylist2
Final_List

#How to change an element in the list
final_list[2] =30
#How to know the length of the list elements
len(Final_List)
#How to delete a list
del(Final_List)
#How to delete elements of a list
del(Final_List[5])


Tuples:
A sequence types created using parenthesis rather than square brackets that can not be updated.



Pracrtice
#Creating a tuple
my_tuple= ('Mark', 'Male', 55)
my_tuple
#Elements of a tuple
my_tuple[0]
my_tuple[1]
my_tuple[2]
#manipulating a tuple's element
my_tuple[0]*10


Dicitionaries
they have two major element types and value
they are a collection of key value pairs
Each key is seperated from its value by a colon(
the items are seperated by commas and the whole thing is enclosed in a curly brace.
key are unique within a dictionary.


city= {0:"LA", 1:"PA", 2:"FL" }
city
city[0]
city[1]
city[2]


names= {1:"David", 6:"Bill", 9:"jim"}
names
names[0] #different key vaues doesnt work
names[1]
names[2] #different key vaues doesnt work
names[6]
names[9]

#a string can also serve as a key
edu = {"David": "BSC", "Bill": "MSC", "Jim": "PHD"}
edu
edu [David] #will not work, need inverted comma as a string
edu ["David"]
#you can also change the value to keys as shown below
edu ["David"] = "MSC"
edu #run to confirm the values has been updated


#Updating keys in dictionary
#first delete the key and value element and then add new element

city= {0: "LA", 1: "PA", 2: "FL"}
#make key 6 as value "LA"
del city[0]
city
city[6]= "LA"
city


#Fetch all keys and values seprately
city.keys()
city.values()

edu.values()
edu.keys()

Basic commands in Python:
Note:
Python is case seensitive eg: address is not sames as address
Also be careful while using variable names and functions eg: Print() which is wriing and is not same as pint() which is correct.
TO comment a codeout you use # for single liine and """""" 3 inverted commas to comment a paragrap

Basic commands: using basic mathematical commands
Practice 1:


571+95
print (57+39)
print ( "vibra Consulting" )
rint (phone number 08059846085)
# Use hash (#) for comments
# divisional examples
34/56
35/70
144/12

# thia is how yoou coment out a single line in Python.

"""
this is how you comment
out a line in Python
"""

Spyder Editor:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/s9PKx.png

To execute the code you must first highlight it then hit Ctrl + Enter.
Code writen in this editor is saved in .py format.
You can load old code files.
You can hit tab button to show auto fill options on objects and function names.
Note: you will be spending most of your time using the editor throughout this course


Spyder Varriable expolrer:
Shows all varialbles that are created in current session.
helps in physical checking the presence of objects that are created.
shows a quick summary of the presence of: type of objects, size, lenght, sample, etc.
we can run the code and see the objects getting created, also we can validate the datatype and sizeof the object.


Spyder Console:
This is where the code will be executed, when you hit Ctrl+Enter in the Editor.
Help us when we are code testing and debugging.
help us to avoid errors in source code at the development phase itself.
Its usual practice to write a chunk of code in editor and execute then see if its working or not from the cosole window.
In Spyder IDE you can toggle between console and Ipython console.

Inroduction to Python:

Contents:
What is python and history.
Installing python and python enviroment.
Basic commands in Python.
datatype and operations.
if-then-else statement.
For Loop.
Python functions.
Python packages.


Introduction to Pyhton:
Python is a general purpose language.
Human readable sysntaxand well documented.
Open source.
Powerful Scripting Language with Simple syntax
Used by many data scientist and developers


History:
Python was created by Guido Rossum.
first version released 1991
pythin 2 released 2000.
python 3 released 2008.

python 3 was released to overcome future code expansion challengies
Python 3 is not fully backward comaptible with Python 2. Python 2 will no longer be supported after 2020.


Python 2.7 or Python 3.5 whihc version to use?
Clearly Python 2 is not the same as Python 3
there are minorchanges and some incompatibilities
code meant for Python 2 may not always run on Python 3 and vice versa.

However, all Imprtant packages like NumPy, SciPy and MatPlotlib are availabe form both Python 2 and 3.

*****Note: In this course we're going to be using Python 3




Installing Python and Python IDE:
Practical Installing Anaconda.

Writting and executing Python Programs:
Python has many options to write and execute a program. However, we'll explore 3 main ways to execute Python Code, which include:
1.Text editor or Command Line Interface
2.Ipython
3.Any Python IDE

****** Note: we would be using SPyder IDE which is a part of Anaconda distirbution
(website:https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/#download-section. )


Anaconda has all the required software Inbuilt.All on e needs is to download and install with need for elaborate configuration.


Spyder IDE
Spyder IDE formerly know as PYdee, is an open source cross platform IDE for python which has the following features:

1. Editor with syntax Highlightingin code completion
2. Interractive console to execute and check output of the code
3. Testing and Debugging is relativly easy
4. Best IDE if you already worked with R-studio or Matlab
5. it provides ObjectInspector that executes in the context of a console IE: Any object created can be inspected.

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NB: SORRY ITEMS ALREADY SOLD
Thanks Nairaland....the buyer might have gotten a hint from here.

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I wouldn't sway on the part of sentiments and comedy, one question i ask the learned people in Nigeiria: is it in the constitution and if so this are gray areas we have to address [ while we wait at that, i also ask are there not meant to be checks and balances], simple!

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