Current Series: Introduction to Python

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1. Introduction to Coding: top-down vs. bottom-up engineering

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2a. Google Colaboratory: reproducible code notebooks, Markdown

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2b. Basic Python: types, functions, sequences (e.g., lists), strings, control flow (if-elif-else, for/while loops)

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3. Data Structures I: lists and tuples

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4. Data Structures II: sets and dictionaries

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5. Modules: import statements, NumPy ecosystem, real-word example with CDC COVID-19 data

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