Python Basics Course

In this chapter, you will be introduced to our programming
environment, the Data Lab, for the first time and run your
first commands.
• Represent data as numbers or text in Python
• Store data in variables and lists
• Create, access and modify lists
• Read error messages and use them productively

In this chapter, you’ll learn important basic programming skills.
• Conditions (if-else logic)
• Using standard Python functions such as len() orsum()
• Methods for text and list data types, e.g. str.format() or list.append()
• Defining truth values with comparison operators and
representing them as bool
• Two-hour mini-project with car data to apply the skills you have learned

In the third chapter, participants polish their programming skills
in Python and acquire advanced coding techniques. You will also
combine individual programming elements such as conditions, loops
and functions together within programs.
• Writing for loops and combining them with conditions
• Writing functions and checking their performance
• Importing Python modules
• Importing data as plain text and exporting it again
• One-hour mini-project using telephone data to apply
the skills you have learnedlls

In this chapter, you will strengthen what you have learned in the
previous chapters, and learn the aspects listed below. This is all good
preparation for the final project at the end of the chapter.
• Sets
• List comprehension
• Complex data structures
• NumPy Arrays
• Four-hour final project on automating work processes