Course schedule

Session 1: Introduction to programming and Python (Lars)

• First steps
  • expressions, statements, variables, calling functions
  • basic data types and objects
  • how to print things, f-strings
  • basic control flow (if-then-else, while)
  • writing functions
• Python's built-in data structures
  • list, tuple, set, and dict

Examples/challenges:

• Playing with lists / dictionaries in the REPL
• Slicing lists
• range
• looping over elements
• how to copy list and possible pitfalls
• as soon as we go for functions we work in the editor
• for functions we start with some repetitive code and abstract it into a function

Session 2: String handling and input/output (Radovan)

• 2.1: Writing functions which manipulate strings
• 2.2: File input/output
• 2.3: Extracting data

Session 3: More I/O and structuring projects (Radovan)

• 3.1: Templating and launching shell commands
• 3.2: More data extraction
• 3.3: Parsing large files
• 3.4: Imports and structuring projects

Session 4: Jupyter, plotting, and Pandas (Dan)

• plotting
• Jupyter notebooks
• hello world demo of pandas

Session 5: "talk to the doctor" (all instructors)

• bring your own real-life "problems"/issues
• these are discussed together
• instructors try to live-code solutions for real-life challenges with feedback from everybody

Great resources

• https://realpython.com
• https://docs.python-guide.org