Python 101 - Python for Beginners

This GitHub repository contains material for a beginner Python course held in COWI Lyngby during Fall 2019.

Sessions Notes and Exercises

Descriptions and exercises for each session are in the format of HTML-files created with Jupyter Notebooks. See links to the files for each session below.

In the code tab of this repository there will be a folder for each session. In case an exercise requires additional files like .csv-files or scripts, they will be present there.

• Session 1 - Data Types

• Session 2 - Data Structures

• Session 3 - Functions

• Session 4 - Plotting with matplotlib

• Session 5 - DataFrames

• Session 6 - Practical Exercise

• Session 7 - Coordinate Transformation

• Session 8 - Interpolation

• Session 9 - Heatmaps and Merging Operation

Session Exercise Solutions

• Session 1 - Data Types (No solutions)

• Session 2 - Data Structures

• Session 3 - Functions

• Session 4 - Plotting

• Session 5 - DataFrames

• Session 6 - Exercise (shear key plots)

• Session 7 - Coordinate Transformation

• Session 8 - Interpolation

• Session 9 - Heatmaps and Merging Operations

Course Notes

Some notes have been prepared for the course, but is still work in progress: Course Notes (work in progress)

These notes have some content that overlaps with the notes for each session, but is in general a more overall description. It also contains more detailed explanations of some topics that did not fit into the session notes.

Useful Links

General

• PEP8 (Style guide for Python code)

• Online interpretor (write code without installing an editor)

Beginner Tutorials

• Interactive Tutorial from DataCamp

Videos

• Corey Schafer
  • Videos with very clear and beginner friendly explanations of programming. Most of the videos focus on Python. Go to playlists and find the beginner tutorials to get started.
• Sentdex
  • Videos on many topics ranging from beginner to advanced.

Git and GitHub

• What is GitHub? - Good video explanation from the GitHub Youtube Channel

• The GitHub workflow - Youtube video explaining a simple and effective workflow using Git and GitHub

• GitHub Learning Lab - Interactive tutorial that goes through usage GitHub

• Ressources to Learn Git

• Git and GitHub for Beginners

Coding Challenge Sites

• CodeWars (Coding challenge site)

• Edabit (Coding challenge site)

Miscellaneous

• Python Data Science Handbook

• Python Cheat Sheets

• Top 50 Matplotlib Visualizations

• Pactical Business Python (Pandas focused website)

• Common Excel Tasks Demonstrated in Pandas