Python Workshops

Welcome! This repository contains a teaching workshop for beginners who want a gentle, hands-on introduction to Python using Jupyter notebooks. No prior Python experience is required. Then, we take it a step further by going into our intermediate workshop to learn more skills.

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What’s inside

• PythonCrashCourse_Notebook_beginner.ipynb — the main workshop notebook you can run in your browser via Google Colab.

• Step-by-step exercises covering:

  • Basic Python syntax (variables, types, lists)
  • Packages
  • Working in notebooks (cells, markdown, code)
  • Light data wrangling and plotting (intro level)

• PythonCrashCourse_Notebook_intermediate.ipynb —

• Step-by-step exercises covering:

  • Dictionaries
  • List comprehension and Dicitonary comprehension
  • More Plotting
  • Filtering Dataframes
  • Reading and Writing Files
  • Looping control
  • Conditional Statements
  • Parsing Text and JSON Files
  • Writing your first standalone Python script

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Run in your browser (recommended)

Click the badge to launch the notebook in Colab:

Beginner -

Intermediate -

Tips:

• To keep your own copy: File → Save a copy in Drive (or Save a copy to GitHub).

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Run locally (optional)

If you prefer running on your machine:

Using conda (mamba/conda)

mamba create -n pyworkshop python=3.10 jupyterlab numpy pandas matplotlib seaborn -y
mamba activate pyworkshop   # or: conda activate pyworkshop
jupyter lab