Intro to Python (Carpentries)

About this resource

The Plotting and Programming in Python workshop provides an introduction to programming in Python 3 for people with little or no previous programming experience. It uses plotting as its motivating example to learn Python fundamentals, including functions, conditional logic, loops, and popular packages (e.g., Pandas).

Prerequisites

No previous experience with programming necessary.

Estimated time to complete

This workshop takes approximately 8 hours to complete.

Register to take this workshop in Madison!

The Carpentries is a global organization of researchers who volunteer their time and effort to create workshops that teach software engineering and data analysis skills to other researchers. UW-Madison has its own local Carpentries community which is actively engaged in developing new ML/AI workshops. To be notified of upcoming workshops offered by the Carpentries, make sure to subscribe to the Data Science @ UW Newsletter.

Alternatively, work through the materials independently!

All Carpentries lessons are published as open source educational materials. You are welcome and encouraged to visit the lesson materials to work through them on your own. If you are involved with a research lab at UW-Madison campus, you may attend Coding Meetup (Tue/Thur, 2:30-4:30pm) to get help working through the materials.

Questions?

If you any lingering questions about this resource, please feel free to post to the Nexus Q&A on GitHub. We will improve materials on this website as additional questions come in.

See also

• Workshop: Intro to Machine Learning with Sklearn: Once you master Python fundamentals, start using the scikit-learn package to begin exploring “classical” ML methods (e.g., regression, clustering, decision trees).