Goal
The idea of this short introduction to Python is to get you get you started systematically, with seven managable and simple steps. Each step is accompanied by a video, giving you a hand if you have difficulties with any particular task.
IMPORTANT: First try to do each part by yourself!! This way you see where you have problems, and which steps you have already mastered. Then go to the accompanying video, and see how to handle those steps you had difficulties with.
List of Topics
- Installation of ...
- a Python distribution,
- Wing (an IDE, or "Integrated Development Environment")
- additional Python packages, with
pip
- Program
Execution of a very simple Python
program, from
- the command line
- Ipython (a Python interpreter optimized for interactive work)
- from an IDE (e.g. Wing)
- Data Structures are the basis for any involved data analysis.
- Data Input, from data in the same folder or in a different
- Data
Handling of elements from a
list or a matrix, and indexing of pandas
DataFrames - Functions in Python
- Data Manipulation and Visualisation: rotation and translation of 2-dimensional data points
When you are done with those 7 points, you can check out the Workflow for a real-world problem for a of a more involved data analysis task.
This should suffice for a start with Python. You still need to learn the Python syntax and data types! But by now you should have a good basis to do so.
Additional Information
For digging deaper into Python I recommend the following two sources of information:- My book Hands-on Signal Analysis with Python. (I admit that I am biassed, but I do believe it is a good one for getting started.)
- The website Scientific Python Lectures
- Official Python Tutorial A good place to start if you have little programming experience
- Real Python Great tutorials for learning
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