Material

Most of the material here is presented as IPython notebooks. The main links will take you to a nicely formatted text version of the notebook displayed in the browser. You can also download the actual notebook to interact with it on your computer by changing the code and seeing what happens.

Introductory Programming Material

• Expressions (notebook)
• Types (notebook)
• Integer Division (notebook)
• Variables and Assignment (notebook)
• Using Functions (notebook)
• Writing Functions (notebook)
• Strings (notebook)
• Lists: loops, methods, and nested lists
• For loops (notebook)
• While loops (notebook)
• Common points of confusion in Python (notebook)
• Numpy (notebook)
• Graphing (notebook)
• Statistics (notebook)
• Python & R: Slides, notebook (raw notebook)
• Debugging

Introductory Databases Material

• Introduction to Databases
• Database Structure
• Forms in MS Access
• Reports in MS Access
• SQL for Access Users
• Interacting with Databases from Python (notebook)

Advanced Material

• Importing delimited text files (notebook)
• Exporting data from Python (notebook)
• Writing Functions (notebook)
• Numpy (notebook)
• Graphing in Python (notebook)
• Interacting with Databases from Python (notebook)
• Database Structure
• Debugger
• Testing
• List comprehensions (notebook)
• Style
• Python & R: Slides, notebook (raw notebook)
• Program Design (notebook)
• Statistics (notebook)
• Web data