Intro to Python

Notebooks in this section were compiled for year 1 undergraduate students in Earth Science and Engineering Department at Imperial College London.

The notebooks cover all basic topics covered in year 1 programming course:

Exercises

1. Printing

2. Variables

3. If statement

4. While loop

5. Lists

6. For loops

7. List comprehensions

8. Nested lists

9. Handling errors

10. Importing

11. Functions

12. Tuples

13. File handling

14. Dictionaries

15. Flow control statements

16. Sets

17. Assert

18. Classes

19. Lambdas

1. Printing and formatting statements

   • Printing text

   • String formating

2. Variables

   • Types of variables

   • Operations on variables

3. If statement

4. While loops

5. Lists

6. For loops

7. List comprehensions

8. Nested lists

9. Handling errors

   • Error types

   • Raising errors

   • Try and except blocks

10. Importing in Python

11. Creating custom functions

12. Tuples

13. File handling

    • Python

    • NumPy

    • Pandas

14. Dictionaries

15. Flow control statements

    • Break and continue statements

    • Pass statement

16. Sets

17. Plotting data with Matplotlib

    • Line and scatter data

    • Histogram

    • Image plot

    • 3D plots

    • Animations

18. Assert

19. Python classes

20. Lambdas

21. NumPy arrays