Welcome to the pystarters repository

COURSE DETAILS

COURSE TAs and contacts

• Antonin Blot
• George Dimitriadis
• Jesse Geerts
• Francesca Greenstreet
• Stephen Lenzi
• Goncalo Lopez
• Arne Meyer
• Maxime Rio
• Charly Rousseau

Detailed schedule and weekly learning goals

Week 01, 27/02 (Gatsby 3rd Floor): Introduction to the pyclub, Python and the programming tools used in the class

• Learn about the pyclub and the program for the year.
• Understand the objectives of PyStarters.
• Basic style - writing pythonic code (python3, import/packages, modules, enumerate …) to ease sharing.
• Basic tools (pycharm, jupyter …).
• The python interpreter.
• The python documentation.
• Setting up a python environment (hands on).
• Introduction to next week’s exercises

Weeks 02 - 03, 13/03 (Gatsby 3rd Floor) - 27/03 (Gatsby 3rd Floor):Built in Python data types and Jupyter.

• Learn about environments.
• Work with anaconda.
• Master Jupyter.
• Learn to manipulate python built in variables efficiently.
• Learn about ducktyping in python (e.g. for iterables)
• introduction to the STL ?

Weeks 04 - 05, 10/04 (Gatsby 3rd Floor) - 14/04 (Unkown): Version control

• Introduction to the concept of VCS.
• Install and learn basic git usage.

Weeks 06 - 07, 24/04 (Gatsby 3rd Floor) - 08/05 (Brasserie): Functions and Procedural programming

• Modularising programs into functions
• Pass by value vs pass by reference
• The python import system
• Docstrings

Weeks 08 - 09, 29/05 (Brasserie) - 12/06 (Brasserie): Python science libraries

• Numpy (efficient array operations)
• Scipy
• Matplotlib (graphics)

Weeks 10 - 11, 26/06 (Brasserie) - 10/07 (Brasserie): Follow up of week 5

Weeks 12 - 13, 24/07 (Brasserie) - 14/08 (Brasserie): Object oriented programming

• Introduction to OO programming in Python
• Special methods and operator overloading

Weeks 14 - 15, 28/08 (Brasserie) - 11/09 (Gatsby 3rd Floor): Exceptions and testing

• Exception handling
• Defining custom exceptions
• Introduction to software testing
• Unit testing with pytest

Weeks 16 - 17, 25/09 (Brasserie) - 16/10 (Brasserie): Packaging

• distutils
• setuptools
• conda recipes

Weeks 18 - 21, 30/10 (Brasserie), 13/11 (Brasserie), 27/11 (Brasserie), 11/12 (Brasserie): Selection of topics between GUI programming, profiling and optimisation, scripting, R in python for statistics