Learn to Program: Python at NCI Online

NCIhttps://opus.nci.org.au/display/Help/NCI+Training+and+Educational+EventsThe National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) is Australia's leading high-performance data, storage and computing organisation, providing expert services to benefit all domains of science, government and industry. NCI aims to deliver to the Australian research sector the computational capability and enhanced services it needs to achieve transformational outcomes benefiting Australia's industry, environment, research sector, public policy formulation and Australian society more broadly.Intersecthttps://intersect.org.au/trainingIntersect is a pivotal part of Australian research landscape. We 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 also a member of the Software Carpentry Foundation, the NCI (National Computational Infrastructure) and the AAF (Australian Access Federation).

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

<h3>Brought to you by NCI in partnership with Intersect and delivered by Intersect.</h3><h3></h3><h3>Please register your interest by joining the waitlist using your institution/organization email*. Tickets will be allocated to registrants closer to the course date.</h3><h3>* People who register without an institution/organization email will not be considered when allocating the tickets. Please make sure that you use a valid email address.</h3><p></p><h3>About this course</h3><p><a href="https://intersect.org.au/training/course/python101/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><strong>https://intersect.org.au/training/course/python101/</strong></a></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p></p><h3>This course is targeted at NOVICES to programming. </h3><h3>It will be run over two half days:</h3><ul><li>9:30 am - 12:45 pm on 11 Nov 2021</li><li>9:30 am - 12:45 pm on 12 Nov 2021</li></ul><p></p><h3>You’ll learn:</h3><ul><li>Introduction to the JupyterLab interface for programming</li><li>Basic syntax and data types in Python</li><li>How to load external data into Python</li><li>Creating functions (FUNCTIONS)</li><li>Repeating actions and anylsing multiple data sets (LOOPS)</li><li>Making choices (IF STATEMENTS – CONDITIONALS)</li><li>Ways to visualise data in Python</li></ul><h3></h3><h3>Prerequisites</h3><p><strong>No prior experience with programming is </strong>needed to attend this course.</p><p>We strongly recommend attending the <a href="https://intersect.org.au/training/course/coding001/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Start Coding without Hesitation: Programming Languages Showdown</a> and <a href="https://intersect.org.au/training/course/coding003/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Thinking like a computer: The Fundamentals of Programming</a> webinars. Recordings of previously delivered webinars can be found <a href="https://intersect.org.au/training/webinars/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</p><p><strong>For more information about prerequisites and programming pathways for this course, please visit </strong><a href="https://intersect.org.au/training/course/python101/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><strong>the course page</strong></a><strong> on our website.</strong></p><p></p><h3>The Intersect approach to training</h3><p>At Intersect, we deliver hands-on courses that target the day-to-day software and technology problems that researchers face. </p><p>For more information about <a href="https://intersect.org.au/training/course/python101/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">this course</a> and others, see our <a href="https://intersect.org.au/training/courses" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">course catalogue</a>, or visit <a href="http://learn.intersect.org.au" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><strong>Learn.intersect.org.au</strong></a></p><p>For more information about how we allocate tickers and address no-shows, see our <a href="https://intersect.org.au/policy/training/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">training policy</a>.</p>

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