Bachelor 2024/2025

Introduction into Python

Type: Elective course (Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication)

Area of studies: Linguistics

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

Where: School of Foreign Languages

When: 2 year, 1-4 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Maksim Karpov

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Python is one of the most popular and easy to learn programming languages. This language is a powerful data analysis tool, which may increase efficiency of almost any activity in science or industry. Python may help automise routine operations and process data in the amount, which is by several orders higher than the amount achievable manually or with the use of the electronic spreadsheets. This module is aimed at developing skills in the area of understanding the code and writing own programs. It will cover the topics essential for the study of the basic types of data and syntactic constructions of Python, as well as for the preparation to an independent programming test of the entry and basic level. This module is taught on the basis of the course “Python as a foreign language” (in Russian: «Python как иностранный») https://edu.hse.ru/course/view.php?id=133389