Gentle hands-on introduction to Python programming
4, 11 and 18 January 2023
General context
This course gently introduces programming to new programmers. There are plenty of opportunuties to apply and practice what you learn, and ask questions in a safe place. Furthermore, surprise yourself by building a substantial project over the 3 course weeks. We use the popular Python programming language to prepare you for real-world research application of what you learn.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Understand some fundamental programming concepts
- Understand Python programs written by your colleagues
- Make useful changes to existing Python programs
- Write new, useful Python programs
- Take more advanced Python courses
This course is aimed at people with no programming skills or experience. Those who want to learn Python but have experience with other languages are welcome but you may find the course slow going.
If you’re already familiar with Python and want to improve your skills in a particular area please register for a more specialized course such as the.data analysis, the machine learning or the deep learning training.
Trainers
James Collier
I am a software engineer with over 10 years of professional experience on systems ranging from tiny embedded medical microchips, through to web applications and high-performance supercomputers. I grew up in a small town in rural Australia then completed a PhD at Monash University applying information compression to the protein structural alignment problem. Now I live in the Netherlands with my lovely wife and three children. Currently, I work for VIB Technologies building web applications. You can find out more about me here: https://james.thecolliers.xyz/
Nina Buchina
Nina Buchina is a software engineer currently working in a field of robotics in the Netherlands. She completed a MSc program in Mathematics and Computer Science at the Eindhoven Technical University. Nina lives near Eindhoven and raises a beautiful cat.
Program
- Introduction to your instructors and fellow students
- Learning environment setup
- What is programming and computation?
- Introduction to Python
- Explore available projects
- Review of the previous week
- Organizing and operating on data
- Reading and Writing data to files
- Review of previous week
- Cool Python features
Practical info
Info for trainer
Elixir code: 7549