Introduction to software development in Python

Organised by Adam Tyson.

Overview

Python is one of the most popular programming languages worldwide and is used in all areas of science. As one of the most flexible languages it can be used to automate routine tasks, visualise data, process images and run statistical tests, along with many other applications.

This will be a one-day course to introduce the very basics of programming in Python and get you up and running on your own machine. No experience is necessary, all you need is a laptop you can install software on.

Contents

• Introduction to Python
• Installing Python
• Editing Python files (IDE, text editor etc.)
• Variables
• Data types

• Morning overview and Q&A
• Loops
• Conditional statements
• Loading and saving data
• Writing your first Python script
• Installing packages with pip