{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "composite-saturday", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Lecture 2: Quick(ish) Introduction to Python" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "velvet-helping", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "The goal of this lecture is to give you some of the basics. It's not possible for us to cover **everything** you'll need to know ahead of time. As graduate students, you are expected to be able to do some research and self-teaching on your own to build your coding skills, and of course you can *always* come ask me for help!" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "hourly-patch", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "A nice reference for a lot of the computational skills we'll be covering (coding, unix command line, git) is the \"Software Carpentry\" set of lessons: https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/. You should seriously considering checking their tutorials for extra practice and more in-depth lessons!" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "f162de59", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "This document is a \"Jupyter Notebook\". It's kind of like interactive mode, but also lets you intersperse text, html, etc, among it. (It's free and easy to set up.)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "tough-fleece", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "