Introduction to Python

fall 2023

Intro information

Teacher

Claus Bové

Teaches * Intro to python * SWA on ITA

You can contact me on clbo@kea.dk

I tend not to answer if contacted on other platforms

Course Material

https://python-elective-kea.github.io/fall2023/index.html

https://github.com/python-elective-kea

Link to this on Fronter every week

What is python?

A simple to use interface (API) for executing C kode

What is Python used for

What is python used for

“Python where we can, C++ where we must.” (Google)

Learning goals

The goal of this elective is to make you a better, and a more clear thinking programmer, and to make you able to be so using python as your programming language.

All in all you should at the end of this semester have aquired the compentencies required to perform in a job situation where python is needed.

The most important learning goal is that you in the end will be able to write pythonic code

The more formal learning goals

Course Workload

This course is 10 ECTS points which translates to 13 hours pr. week, including classes.

• 12 weeks of teaching

• 2 weeks of exam preperation

Exam

2, 3, 4 january

https://python-elective-kea.github.io/fall2023/exam.html

Mandatory Assignments

2 mandatory assignments in this elective * 1st session 3, 7. september * 2nd session 12, 16. november

Software needed

• VS Code & Jupyter Notebook

Instalations

For the next 15 minutes follow this guide: * https://python-elective-kea.github.io/fall2023/notebooks/installation.html

Notebook introduction & Basic python & Strings