Schedule overview

The bootcamp runs September 4–8, 2023, room number TBA.

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Daily schedule

• Pre-bootcamp

  • Lesson 0: Configuring your computer

• Day 1: Monday, September 4

  • 9:00 - Lesson 1: Welcome and Introduction to JupyterLab

  • 9:45 - Lesson 2: Basic command line skills

  • 10:35 - Lesson 3: Variables, operators, and types

  • 11:20 - Lesson 4: More operators and conditionals

  • noon - Lunch break

  • 1:00 - Exercise 1

  • 1:45 - Lesson 5: Lists and tuples

  • 2:35 - Lesson 6: Iteration

  • 3:20 - Lesson 7: Introduction to functions

  • 4:10 - Lesson 8: String methods

  • 5:00 - Exercise 1

• Day 2: Tuesday, September 5

  • 9:00 - Review of Exercise 1

  • 9:45 - Lesson 9: Dictionaries

  • 10:35 - Lesson 10: Packages and modules

  • 11:20 - Lesson 11: File I/O

  • noon - Lunch break

  • 1:00 - Exercise 2

  • 2:00 - Lesson 12: Version control with Git

  • 2:45 - Lesson 13: Errors and exception handling

  • 3:35 - Exercise 2

  • 5:20 - Lesson 14: Style

• Day 3: Wednesday, September 6

  • 9:00 - Review of Exercise 2

  • 9:45 - Lesson 15: Comprehensions

  • 10:35 - Lesson 16: Introduction to Pandas

  • 11:20 - Exercise 3

  • noon - Lunch break

  • 1:00 - Lesson 17: Tidy data and split-apply-combine

  • 2:00 - Lesson 18: Making plots

  • 3:00 - Exercise 3

  • 5:10 - Lesson 19: High level plotting with iqplot

• Day 4: Thursday, September 7

  • 9:00 - Review of Exercise 3

  • 9:45 - Lesson 20: Styling Bokeh plots

  • 10:40 - Lesson 21: Introduction to Numpy and Scipy

  • 11:30 - Exercise 4

  • noon - Lunch break

  • 1:00 - Lesson 22: Plotting time series and generated data

  • 1:40 - Exercise 4

  • 5:10 - Lesson 23: Random number generation

• Day 5: Friday, September 8

  • 9:00 - Review of Exercise 4

  • 9:45 - Lesson 24: Hacker stats I

  • 10:35 - Lesson 25: Hacker stats II

  • 11:20 - Exercise 5

  • noon - Lunch break

  • 1:00 - Lesson 26: Dashboards

  • 1:45 - Lesson 27: JavaScript for stand-alone Bokeh apps

  • 2:45 - Exercise 5

  • 5:00 - Lesson 28: Survey of other packages and languages

  • 5:45 - Lesson 29: Bootcamp recap

• Auxiliary lessons

  • Lesson 30: Control of external devices

  • Lesson 31. Apps for controlling external devices

  • Lesson 32: Control panels

  • Lesson 33: More about the command line

  • Lesson 34: Regular expressions

  • Lesson 35: Introduction to scripting

  • Lesson 36: Introduction to object-oriented programming

  • Lesson 37: Algorithmic complexity

  • Lesson 38: Testing and test-driven development

  • Lesson 39: Examples of TDD

  • Lesson 40: High level plotting with HoloViews

  • Lesson 41: High level plotting with Vega-Altair

  • Lesson 42: More plotting with Vega-Altair

  • Lesson 43: Dealing with overplotting

  • Lesson 44: Introduction to image processing with scikit-image

  • Lesson 45: Basic image quantification

• Auxiliary exercise

  • Exercise 6