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Introduction to Programming with Python

What is Python

  • High level Programming Language
  • Syntax emphasizes readability
  • Free and open-source
  • Multi-platform

Why Python?

  • Batteries included
  • Very popular for scientific computing
    • SciPy and NumPy
    • Other libraries -

Why Python? Reproducible Research

  • Jupyter notebooks
  • Available for a variety of languages (such as R)
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Things to note

  • Different versions of Python exist, 2 & 3

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