The k-Nearest Neighbors algorithm (or kNN for short) is an easy algorithm to understand and to implement, and a powerful tool to have at your disposal.

In this tutorial you will implement the k-Nearest Neighbors algorithm from scratch in Python (2.7). The implementation will be specific for classification problems and will be demonstrated using the Iris flowers classification problem.

This tutorial is for you if you are a Python programmer, or a programmer who can pick-up python quickly, and you are interested in how to implement the k-Nearest Neighbors algorithm from scratch.