How to Learn to Code Python Class

Table of Contents

• How to Learn to Code Python Class
  • Table of Contents
  • Lecture List
  • Python Learning Resources:
  • General Resources
  • For devs:

Lecture List

All lessons are stored in folders titled Lesson#-Description, each has a regular version and a student version which has some code removed for active-learning. Optional self-grading homeworks are listed along with lessons.

• Lesson 1: Introduction to Programming and Python - Variables
• Lesson 2: Iterables, Modules and Libraries
• Lesson 3: Abstraction and Functions
  • Functions Homework 1
• Lesson 4: File input/output, String Manipulation, Pandas 1
• Lesson 5: Pandas II
• Lesson 6: Numpy
• Lesson 7: Plotting
• Lesson 8a: Scikit-Learn
• Lesson 8b: Image Processing

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Python Learning Resources:

Formatting and Style

• Python Style Guide PEP8
• A guide on Autoformatters

Online Python Lessons

• RealPython
• Official Python Tutorial
• W3Schools
• TutorialsPoint

Package Management

• pip Tutorial
• Conda Tutorial

Python for Bioinformatics

• Rosalind

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General Resources

Research Code

• Research Code Handbook

Git and Github

• Git and Github Tutorial

Unix/Linux

• Unix/Linux Tutorial

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For devs:

Formating All lessons written in a jupyter notebook should follow the format of Lesson Template.ipynb