- Antonin Blot
- George Dimitriadis
- Jesse Geerts
- Francesca Greenstreet
- Stephen Lenzi
- Goncalo Lopez
- Arne Meyer
- Maxime Rio
- Charly Rousseau
Week 01, 27/02 (Gatsby 3rd Floor): Introduction to the pyclub, Python and the programming tools used in the class
- Learn about the pyclub and the program for the year.
- Understand the objectives of PyStarters.
- Basic style - writing pythonic code (python3, import/packages, modules, enumerate …) to ease sharing.
- Basic tools (pycharm, jupyter …).
- The python interpreter.
- The python documentation.
- Setting up a python environment (hands on).
- Introduction to next week’s exercises
Weeks 02 - 03, 13/03 (Gatsby 3rd Floor) - 27/03 (Gatsby 3rd Floor):Built in Python data types and Jupyter.
- Learn about environments.
- Work with anaconda.
- Master Jupyter.
- Learn to manipulate python built in variables efficiently.
- Learn about ducktyping in python (e.g. for iterables)
- introduction to the STL ?
Weeks 04 - 05, 10/04 (Gatsby 3rd Floor) - 14/04 (Unkown): Version control
- Introduction to the concept of VCS.
- Install and learn basic git usage.
Weeks 06 - 07, 24/04 (Gatsby 3rd Floor) - 08/05 (Brasserie): Functions and Procedural programming
- Modularising programs into functions
- Pass by value vs pass by reference
- The python import system
- Docstrings
Weeks 08 - 09, 29/05 (Brasserie) - 12/06 (Brasserie): Python science libraries
- Numpy (efficient array operations)
- Scipy
- Matplotlib (graphics)
Weeks 10 - 11, 26/06 (Brasserie) - 10/07 (Brasserie): Follow up of week 5
Weeks 12 - 13, 24/07 (Brasserie) - 14/08 (Brasserie): Object oriented programming
- Introduction to OO programming in Python
- Special methods and operator overloading
Weeks 14 - 15, 28/08 (Brasserie) - 11/09 (Gatsby 3rd Floor): Exceptions and testing
- Exception handling
- Defining custom exceptions
- Introduction to software testing
- Unit testing with pytest
Weeks 16 - 17, 25/09 (Brasserie) - 16/10 (Brasserie): Packaging
- distutils
- setuptools
- conda recipes
Weeks 18 - 21, 30/10 (Brasserie), 13/11 (Brasserie), 27/11 (Brasserie), 11/12 (Brasserie): Selection of topics between GUI programming, profiling and optimisation, scripting, R in python for statistics