Think python

Sketch curriculum for the inaugural "Python Boot camp" held for the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics at the University of Edinburgh, June 3-7 2013.

Curriculum mainly follows Think Python by Allen Downey. The book is freely available on-line in both pdf and html.

Monday, 3 June:

Morning:

• Chapter 1: The way of the program
• Chapter 2: Variables, expressions and statements
• Chapter 3: Functions
• Chapter 4: Case Study Uses Swampy which can be downloaded from PyPi using pip install swampy from the command line.

Afternoon:

For the afternoon sessions, I plan to switch from basics of Python programming to more specialized topics. We will start by covering Chapter 3 of Wes McKinney's book Python for Data Analysis. The code for the entire book can be forked from it's github repository.

Tuesday, 4 June:

Wednesday, 5 June:

Thursday, 6 June:

Friday, 7 June: