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Python Prep

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Overview

Our Python Prep content will help lay a good foundation in python for any of our other python related content. If you plan on participating in our data science boot camp you need to be able to do the python covered in these lectures.

Instructional Team

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Matthew Osborne, PhD

Head of Boot Camps

Office Hours:

TBD

Email:

matthewosborne71@erdosinstitute.org

Preferred Contact:

Slack

Don't hesitate to reach out with any questions or concerns!

Objectives

To provide you with a basic familiarity with the Python programming language ahead of our other boot camps and mini courses.

Project Examples

First Steps/Prerequisites

Prior to starting our python prep content you will need to complete all of the steps found in our Python Prep: First Steps Google Document linked below.

You have to complete steps 1-4 at this guide BEFORE you can start the python prep content.

To access the program schedule and content, you must first create an account and member profile and be logged in.

Program Content

Below you will find our Python Prep lecture videos and GitHub repository link.

Before proceeding make sure you have completed the steps provided in the Python Prep: First Steps Google Doc.

Each video below corresponds to one of the lecture jupyter notebooks contained in the GitHub repository. In order to have these notebooks on your laptop you will need to clone the repository. How to clone a repository is one of the steps in the Python Prep: First Steps Google Doc.

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https://github.com/TheErdosInstitute/python-prep

Program Content

Textbook/Notes

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Introduction

Python Prep

In this video we introduce the Python Prep Lecture Series. This series of videos is meant as a primer for the data science materials covered in our annual boot camp.

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Strings

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In this video we learn how python handles text data with strs, or strings.

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Conditionals and Loops

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In this video we touch on foundational programming ideas, conditional statements and loops.

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My First jupyter notebook

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In this video we introduce jupyter notebooks. Come learn about Markdown chunks and Code chunks.

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More Complicated Data Types

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In this video we build off of our past two python prep videos and introduce some more complex data types such as lists, tuples, sets and dicts.

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Writing Functions

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In this video we learn about functions in programming, and see how to write our own functions in python. Along the way we also touch on variable scope.

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Basic Data Types

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In this video we introduce some of the most basic data types in python, int, float and bool.

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Shallow and Deep Copies

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In this video we touch on how python handles storing data in variables and highlight the difference between shallow and deep copies.

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Reading and Writing to File

Python Prep

In this video we demonstrate how you can use python's file objects to read from and write to a text file.

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Project/Homework Instructions

Projects README

Schedule

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Please check your registration email for program schedule and zoom links.

Project/Homework Deadlines

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