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Python Prep

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This program is free for all Erdős Institute website members.
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Explore, Prerequisite Material, Self-Directed, Mini-Course

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.

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Organizers, Instructors, and Advisors

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Steven Gubkin, PhD

Head of Training and Assessment

Office Hours:

By appointment only

Email:

steven@erdosinstitute.org

Preferred Contact:

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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.

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.

Program Content

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Course materials are available on github through the following link:

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

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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

Python Prep

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

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Conditionals and Loops

Python Prep

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

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Importing a Module or Package

Python Prep

In this video we demonstrate the process of importing a module or package into python.

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My First jupyter notebook

Python Prep

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

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More Complicated Data Types

Python Prep

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

Python Prep

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 numpy

Python Prep

In this video we introduce the numpy package.

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Basic Data Types

Python Prep

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

Python Prep

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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Basic pandas

Python Prep

In this video we introduce a data handling package in python called pandas.

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Project/Homework Instructions

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Project/Team Formation
Project Submission
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Schedule

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Phase 1: Instruction and Project Completion

Project Review & Judging

Phase 2: Intense Interview Prep & Career Connections

Matt Osborne Office Hour

May 3, 2023 at 08:00 PM UTC

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Matt Osborne Office Hour

May 5, 2023 at 03:00 PM UTC

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