Welcome to DS256 Data Science Programming

This book will be a work in progress throughout the semester, a repository for our class notes.

Setting Up and Resources

• 1. Setting Up
• 2. Our course GenAI Policy
• 3. Not-an-exam 1: Solutions

Introduction to Python

• 1. Intro to Notebooks and Python First Steps
• 2. Variables
• 3. Functions
• 4. Lists
• 5. Control Flow: Conditional statements
• 6. Control Flow: Loops
• 7. The GAME
• 8. Useful tidbits (loops and strings)
• 9. Dictionaries

Numpy and Matplotlib

• 1. Introducing (and importing) Packages and Modules
• 2. Numpy
• 3. Matplotlib
• 4. In class problem-solving!

Pandas

• 1. Pandas
• 2. Crack the Code!
• 3. Crack the Code! (Solutions)
• 4. Pandas - Grouping and Aggregation
• 5. Pandas - Merging DataFrames
• 6. Pandas Cheat Sheet

Assignments

• Github Submission Guide
• PS00
• PS01
• PS02
• PS03 (v0.1)
• PS04
• Mini-Project 1 (and examples!)
• PS05
• PS06
• PS06 - Helpful Hints