Event Details

The proposed dates for this course now fall on UCU strike days...

The proposed dates for this course now fall on UCU strike days. Due to this, the event will be rescheduled for the Summer term. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

This course will introduce you to the Python programming language and programming by guiding you through reading data in from a file and plotting it.

This course is split over 2 days (9th February and 23rd of February)

This is a two-part course, the first part will cover:

• Variables and assigning values to them
• Data types
• Functions and built-in help
• How to use libraries/packages
• Reading in data
• DataFrams and manipulating your data
• Plotting

The Second day will cover:

• How to make a program do many things. (for and while loops.
• How do make the code do different things depending upon the data by using conditionals (if statements)
• How to process many data sets with a single command
• Re-using code, how to write functions
• How to make your code more readable.

This course will be closely following the Carpentries lesson: https://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-gapminder/ Previous experience has shown that the times listed in this course are not always realistic, so I have split it into 2 full sessions, this part will cover the post-lunch session

The course will be conducted in person and will run from 9:15 until 15:30 with a few breaks throughout the day and 30 minutes for lunch.

For the course, you will need your own computer with Python 3 installed. Instructions for installing Python 3 on your computer can be found here: http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-gapminder/setup.html

if you encounter any problems installing python or have further queries, then please email me.

This will be an in-person course based in the Digital Scholarship Lab in the Library.