Programming for Social Scientists
POL 42340 Programming for Social Scientists
Friday, 11-13 am, QUI-010 (and on Zoom); continuously on Slack
Overview of all the main Python code you will learn during this course: Python commands
Repository for the main project: ucd-prog-2021 on Github
Replit access to main project: ucd-prog-2021 on ReplIt
| 1 | 17/9 | Introduction | homework | Videos: what is programming? | our simulation model | using git Software (optional): Python | Visual Studio Code | git |
| 2 | 24/9 | Variables and functions | homework | Videos: variables and functions | random numbers |
| 3 | 1/10 | Conditionals and flow | homework | Videos: conditional expressions |
| 4 | 8/10 | Loops and lists | homework | Videos: lists | dictionaries | loops |
| 5 | 15/10 | Working with text | homework | Videos: strings and user input External links: string functions | formatters |
| 6 | 22/10 | Classes and objects | homework | Videos: object-oriented programming |
| 7 | 29/10 | (continued) | ||
| 8 | 5/11 | Files, input and output | homework | Videos: working with files |
| 9 | 12/11 | (continued) | ||
| 10 | 19/11 | Exception handling | homework | Videos: exceptions |
| 11 | 26/11 | (continued) | ||
| 12 | 3/12 | Computer simulations and visualisation |