This training program is supported by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) of the University of Sydney. Placements will be prioritised for researchers and research students at the University of Sydney. Registrants who are not researchers or research students at the University of Sydney may be moved to the waitlist. Thank you for your understanding. Please keep an eye on the Intersect website for upcoming courses at your home institution.

This course has two sessions:

• 9:30 am - 13:00 pm on 10 Feb
• 9:30 am - 13:00 pm on 11 Feb

An optional technical support on setting up Zoom or Jupyter Lab will start at 9 am on 10 Feb.

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 it boasts 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:

• 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

Prerequisites

No prior experience with programming needed to attend this course.

The Intersect approach to training

At Intersect, we deliver hands-on courses that targets the day-to-day software and technology problems that researchers face.

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