Introduction to programming with Python [online, PYT101]

Date: 29 October 2024

Programming serves as a versatile tool for a wide range of endeavours, including analyzing data, manipulating data, and automating tasks. Through this workshop, you will learn the basics of programming and consider how it fits into your research project. These concepts aren’t exclusive to Python; they’re applicable to most programming languages, making this workshop pertinent regardless of your chosen language.

Registration

• Academic participant : 10$
• Non-academic participant : $200

Prerequisites

• Understanding the notions of file and directory;
• UNX101 completion or knowledge of the basics of the Unix command line.

Course plan

• Basics
• Data analysis
• Visualization
• Lists
• Repeated operations
• Conditional expressions
• Functions

Instructor

Charles Coulombe, analyst in advanced research computing at Calcul Québec.

Technical prerequisites

We will use the Zoom platform. Because this event is a practical workshop, it is very useful having a secondary screen where you would get the instructor window on one screen and your own window on your main screen.

We will use the Jupyter Lab interface. Make sure you have a modern Web browser like Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Safari.

Contact

For any question, please write to training@calculquebec.ca.

Notes

The workshop could be canceled if the number of registrations is too low.

The workshop is not recorded;