Intro to Python

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• Authors: Ahmed Hasan, James Santangelo (borrowing from: Charles Zhu, Lina Tran, Madeleine Bonsma)
• Research field: Biology
• Lesson topic: Introduction to Python syntax and functionality
• Lesson content URL: https://github.com/utm-coders/studyGroup/tree/gh-pages/lessons/python/intro

Preface:

This is a very basic introduction to the Python programming language, based largely off of the tutorials in the Beginners’ Guide to Python, in particular the Learn Python Tutorials.

We will be walking through the lesson content together using a Jupyter notebook. We highly recommend installing Jupyter lab through Anaconda. Detailed download instructions of all required software can be found HERE

Lesson Overview:

The lesson covers:

• Math, calculations with integers and floats
• Variables
• Lists, tuples and dicts
• Importing libraries
• Function declaration
• Conditionals (e.g., if-else) and for loops
• Brief Numpy, Pandas, and Seaborn

The official Python documentation site goes into much more detail regarding all topics covered in this code-along. Python is supported by a very, very extensive breadth of packages, a list can be found here Please check out StackOverflow for any question on it.