Introduction to Programming with Python

Credits to https://sites.northwestern.edu/summerworkshops/workshop-schedule/#intropython

Make sure to download and install Anaconda for Python 3.6 before attending!

Topics

Below is an outline of the topics that will be covered each day:

Day 1

• Why Python
• Running Python
• Python as a calculator
• Variables
• Strings
• Types
• Indexing & Slicing
• Lists
• If statements
• boolean values & expressions

Day 1 Slides

Day 1 Practice Session Exercises

Day 2

• Jupyter
• Loops - for, pass, while, range, break, continue
• Dictionaries
• Tuples
• Sets
• Functions

The materials for Day 2 are mostly Jupyter Notebooks. To view, launch jupyter notebook in this directory, then open the notebooks in the day-2 folder.

Day 3

• Opening files
• Builtins and the standard library (documentation pages)
• Installing and importing packages
• Writing and running scripts (spyder)
• debugging (print statements, reading stack traces)