A workshop in the Tech Up at GU series

Intro to Python

Nikolay Marinov

6 February

10 am - 1 pm

Intro Py: Workshop Part I

Nikolay Marinov

This six-hour workshop, divided into two sessions, is a practical introduction to Python for people with no prior experience. Participants will be able to interpret, modify, and create scripts, run models, save output - and will have a foundation for further learning.

Plan:

1. Github: a general introduction to data communuty’s go to place for storing and sharing code

2. Where to run Python

3. Write, run, and troubleshoot simple code

4. Variables, data types

5. Control structures, conditionals and loops

6. Lists, dictionaries, user input

7. Functions, modular code

8. Loading data and saving data

9. Py extensions: for “statistics”, language analysis, visuals

10. Py: how polisci currently uses it for research and automation

13 feb

10 am - 1 pm

Intro Py: Workshop Part II

Nikolay Marinov

github repo