Programming for Modelling and Data Analysis

Algorithms and Programs

• What is an algorithm?
• Thinking in algorithms
• Kitchen and Dining Room
• Exercises: Algorithms

Python Environment

• What is Python
• Installation
• Programming Environment
• Fast prototyping with Jupyter Notebooks
• Debugging your code

Constants, Variables and Basic Operations

• Constants and their types
• Other types and logical operations
• Variables
• User interaction

Flow Control

• Conditions
• Exercise: Quadratic equation
• While loops
• For loops
• Exercise: Loops

More on Variables

• Operations on sequences
• Lists
• Dictionaries
• Sets
• Three remarks about iteration over sequences
• Complex numbers
• String operations
• Variables and variable types
• Exercise: Variables

Functions

• Defining and calling functions
• Functions with arbitrary arguments
• Exercise: Functions

Modules

• Using Python modules
• Creating custom modules

Exceptions

• Error Messages
• Catching exceptions
• Raising exceptions

File Operations

• Opening files
• Writing to a file
• Reading from a file
• Saving and loading Python objects
• Exercise: Verification

Classes and Objects: Basis

• A Problem
• Classes and objects
• Custom data types

Project 1: Hangman

Numeric Arrays and Data Visualization

• NumPy: numeric arrays and calculations
• Exercise: NumPy
• Matplotlib: data visualization
• Exercise Billiards

Classes and Objects: Intermediate

• Special methods
• Exercise: Fractions
• Class inheritance

Project 2: Game of Life

Project 3: COVID Simulator