Python Prep
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Overview
We suggest that you complete this Python Prep course content before participating in the Data Science Boot Camp. Content is from F22 and is currently being updated.
Instructional Team
Matthew Osborne, PhD
Head of Boot Camps
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Objectives
To provide you with a basic familiarity with the Python programming language ahead of our other boot camps and mini-courses.
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Program Content
Textbook/Notes
0. 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.
3. Strings
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In this video we learn how python handles text data with strs, or strings.
6. Conditionals and Loops
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In this video we touch on foundational programming ideas, conditional statements and loops.
1. My First jupyter notebook
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In this video we introduce jupyter notebooks. Come learn about Markdown chunks and Code chunks.
4. 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.
7. 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.
2. 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.
5. 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.
8. Reading and Writing to File
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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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