Overview

Instructor: Yang Liu

Time: Friday, October 19, 11:30AM-2:00PM

Location: SCC 102.B

Prerequisites: None

This short course covers basic topics in programming using Python.

Course Materials

• Course Files (Fall 2018): tar.gz
• Notebook Access Instructions: PDF
• Notebook Cheat Sheet: PDF
• Installing Jupyter for use with Course Notebook: Link

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.