Overview

Instructor: Richard Lawrence

Time: Friday, February 26, 10:00AM-12:30PM

Location: Zoom session only

Prerequisites: HPRC account

This short course covers basic topics in programming using Python.

Course Materials

• Course Notes (Spring 2021): PDF
• Course Files (Spring 2021): GitHub
• Access Instructions: PDF
• Notebook Cheat Sheet: PDF
• Installing Jupyter for use with Course Notebook: Link

Previous Semester Materials

• Course Files (Fall 2020): JupyterNotebook
• Notebook Access Instructions: PDF
• Spring 2020 Setup Instructions
• Software Carpentry: Programming with Python (Spring 2020)
• Course Files (Fall 2019): tgz
• Notebook Access Instructions: PDF

Agenda

This course focuses, among others, on the following topics:

• Constants and Variables
• Data Types: Numbers, Strings, and Lists
• Control Statement: If/Else, For, While
• Functions
• Scripts and Modules
• File Input and Output
• Errors and Exceptions
• Dictionaries
• Sorting
• Regular Expression
• Slicing, List Comprehension, List Assignment and Copy

Note: During the class sessions many aspects of the material will be illustrated live via a Jupyter notebook.