Python classes can make your code more complicated than necessary. So when should you use classes, and when should you use standard functions instead?

You're taking a new programming class this fall, and you don't know anything about code. Python is taught widely in schools, and it's one of the most loved programming languages because it's simple.

The weighted k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) classification algorithm is a relatively simple technique to predict the class of an item based on two or more numeric predictor variables. For example, you ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses Python code samples and screenshots to explain naive Bayes classification, a machine learning technique used to predict the class of an item based on two ...