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Revised Code Lab Curriculum #1

@ZoeLeBlanc

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@ZoeLeBlanc

Topics / Ideas - Revisied

what can we cover in an hour?

First Semester

Using a computer - week 1 (but really 2) - tag team week 1

  • intro talk about goals of the program - Zoe
  • how a computer reads and executes code (program flow) - Shane
    • high level → hardware and software
  • command line (bash) - Zoe
    • exercises and computer setup and cheatsheet
  • impostor syndrome / how to learn / fearlessness talk- Shane
  • installation hour after first meeting - Shane look into windows
    • python, pipenv, homebrew, node, text editor, Github account
    • how to get it working on windows
    • pizza party installation party?

Intro to Programming with Python Week 2 & 3 (zoe away week 3)

Week 2

  • python interpreter (hello world)
  • data structures (lists, dicts, tuples, sets, types (str, int, etc...))
  • set → intersection and union
  • built in functions in python len, type, print
  • assignment (maybe a reading?)
  • python documentation
  • python 2 vs 3

Week 3 (

  • logic and conditionals
  • functions
  • pair programming assignment with pairing partners
  • debugging (stack traces, print statements)
  • package management (pipenv)
  • text interpreter (sublime, atom, vscode)
  • how to find help (stack overflow, man page, documentation, github)
  • how to comment files
  • importing modules and third party libraries
  • assignment: assign common python library and present on it the next week

THE web and data 4-7 (zoe away week 4)

Week 4 - how to collaborate

  • git / GitHub
  • i/o files
  • file formats (json, csv, txt, yaml, xml, markdown)
  • encoding
  • assignment: git and github exercise

Week 5 - how to get data

  • web scrapping (beatifulsoup)
  • assignment: webscraping assignment
  • twarc python twitter scrapping
  • html
  • assignment:

Week 6 - how to get data part 2

  • apis
  • browser
  • the internet (http)
  • requests

Week 7 - how to clean data

  • jupyter notebook
  • pandas
  • assignment:

Week 8 - how to visualize data

  • altair
  • more pandas

Week 9 - how to publish and deploy

Websites 8-9 (zoe away)

  • pelican and jekyll
  • html, css, javascript
  • publishing to the web/deployment

Data manipulation 10-11

  • pandas
  • regex
  • python libraries
  • jupyter notebook

Second semester

APIs

  • flask
  • server side

Databases

  • sqlite
  • sql syntax

Advanced data manipulation

  • text mining (nltk , htrc)
  • networks (networkx)
  • thinking quantitatively (why/why not)

Data visualization

  • altair/vega/bokeh
  • making arguments with visual data

Algorithms

  • analysis
  • intro to computation theory
  • scikit

Programming Patterns

  • paradigms (functional programming, OOP)
  • design patterns and SOLID

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