Week 1: Aug 28 - Sept 3

Logistics

  • Syllabus and class organization

Jupyter Notebook

  • Working with files and folders

  • Copying/deleting/moving cells

  • Code cells and markdown cells

  • Markdown basics

  • LaTeX

Python

  • Basic mathematical operations

  • Numbers in Python: integers and floats

  • Variable assignment

  • The print() function

  • Strings and string formatting

  • Importing modules

  • Boolean expressions

  • The if statement

  • Lists and “for” loops

Mathematics

  • Prime numbers

Week 1 notebook

  • View online

  • Download (after downloading put it in the directory where you keep your Jupyter notebooks).