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Practical Introduction to Programming for Scientists 2011

FINAL EXAM MONDAY MAY 9, during the regular class period.

Lecture 1 - Course overview, datatypes in Python	Lecture Video	Lecture Notes	Homework 1
Lecture 2 - Program flow, more on data storage	Lecture Video	Lecture Notes	Homework 2
Lecture 3 - Intro to file storage, libraries	Lecture Video	Lecture Notes	Homework 3
Lecture 4 - More programming examples, file manipulation, numbers	Lecture Video	Lecture Notes	Homework 4	Other needed files
Lecture 5 - Object oriented programming	Lecture Video	Lecture Notes	Homework 5	Other needed files
Lecture 6 - PIL	Lecture Video	Lecture Notes	Homework 6
Lecture 7 - Numpy/Scipy	Lecture Video	Lecture Notes	Homework 7
Lecture 8 - HTML/XML/Web	Lecture Video	Lecture Notes	Homework 8
Lecture 9 - Network Programming & Sockets	Lecture Video	Lecture Notes	No Homework
Lecture 10 - Gui programming with Tkinter	Lecture Video	Lecture Notes	Homework in notes
Lecture 11 - Web Scripting & Regular Expressions	Lecture Video	Lecture Notes	No Homework
Lecture 12 - Parsers	Lecture Video	Lecture Notes	No Homework
Lecture 13 - Databases	No Lecture Video (sorry)	Lecture Notes	No Homework
Lecture 14 - Debugging, Profiling, Parallelism	Lecture Video	Lecture Notes	No Homework

Examples of past class projects:

Analysis of DNA capture targets that failed during sequencing
Calculating the probabilities of different discrete distributions
A Candidate Gene Searcher
Calculating dN/dS automatically from pairs of orthologs by pipelining clustal and paml
96-well reader and calculator
PCR Annealing Temperature Calculator
One click identifier for PDF files
Scraping and processing microarray data from the lab webpage

Note for windows users. One of the students found this link useful: