Learn to Program: Python at La Trobe Online

Learn to Program: Python at La Trobe Online

Learn about the fundamental concepts in programming using Python and apply them to analyse a sample research dataset.

By Intersect Australia

Date and time

Mon, 8 Jul 2024 5:00 PM - Tue, 9 Jul 2024 8:00 PM PDT

Location

Online

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 day 3 hours

    Important:

    This course takes place over 2 days. The dates and times are as follows:

    • Day 1: Tuesday, July 9 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM AEST
    • Day 2: Wednesday, July 10 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM AEST


    Python has deservedly become a popular language for scientific computing. It has all the friendly features and conveniences you’d expect of a modern programming language, and also a rich set of libraries for working with data.

    We teach using Jupyter notebooks, which allow program code, results, visualisations and documentation to be blended seamlessly. Perfect for sharing insights with others while producing reproducible research.

    Join us for this live coding workshop where we write programs that produce results, using the researcher-focused training modules from the highly regarded Software Carpentry Foundation.

    You'll learn:

    • Introduction to the JupyterLab interface for programming
    • Basic syntax and data types in Python
    • How to load external data into Python
    • Creating functions (FUNCTIONS)
    • Repeating actions and analysing multiple data sets (LOOPS)
    • Making choices (IF STATEMENTS – CONDITIONALS)
    • Ways to visualise data in Python

    Prerequisites:

    No prior experience with programming is needed to attend this course.

    We strongly recommend attending the Start Coding without Hesitation: Programming Languages Showdown and Thinking like a computer: The Fundamentals of Programming webinars. Recordings of previously delivered webinars can be found here.

    Organised by

    Intersect Australia

    Intersect is a pivotal part of Australian research landscapeWe provide robust, innovative services and collaborative technology to support world-class research at our member organisations and in the wider research community

    Intersect delivers data storage, compute and analysis platforms, custom engineering, expert consulting and training programs to thousands of researchers every year

    Intersect works closely with the ARDC (Australian Research Data Commons) built from ANDS, Nectar, and RDS

    Intersect is a member of the Software Carpentry Foundation, the NCI (National Computational Infrastructure) and the AAF (Australian Access Federation)