Hoatlin:Python For Beginners

Course overview

• Winter 2017 ongoing
• Location: OHSU main campus.

Wednesdays 11am-noon MRB 634

• This ‘class’ is intended to introduce the Python programming language to users with no previous programming experience with an emphasis on scientific applications. Much like learning a foreign language, the process will be facilitated by interactive meetings where small scripts will be built as a group.

• Bringing a computer is strongly recommended for a more hands-on experience. Computers running Linux or Mac OS will typically have Python already installed. To check the version of Python that is installed, run python –V at a terminal prompt. Users with computers running Windows will need to download and install Python.

• Python can be obtained at python.org/downloads/. Make sure to get version 2.7.x and double check that you’re downloading the correct installer for your OS.

• Topics will be grouped and discussed in sections, see link: File:OmarPythonForBeginners.pdf. Note that each section may span multiple meetings.

Contacts

• Ujwal Shinde
• Omar Davulcu