Week 04

Intro to Python II: Scaling up your code - Iteration, Comprehension and Functions

Lectures Notes:

We will cover these notebooks

Finish from last week:

• Intro to Python II - Control Statements and Functions: html, Jupyter Notebook

From this week:

• Comprehension and Generators: html – Jupyter Notebook

• File Management: html – Jupyter Notebook

• Data as Nested lists - html – Jupyter Notebook

Datasets

Download the datasets here

Slides

• Control Statements, Comprehensions, Nested Lists, and Numpy

Readings

• Required Readings

• PDS VanderPlas

  • Ch. 2: Introduction to Numpy - Python Data Science Handbook - VanderPlas, Jake

• PDA Wes McKinney, Chapter 3

  • List, Set, and Dictionary Comprehensions

  • File Management System

• Additional Readings

  • for-loop-vs-list-comprehension-vs-high-order-functions