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Intro to Programming - 3: Python
Faculty
Anier Velasco Sotomayor
Lead at the ML Theory group at Cohere for AI Open Science community.
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Fee for single course
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Skills you’ll learn
Overview
This course moves away from the syntax and functionality of the Python language and focuses on applications. During the course, we will program a Telegram bot, write a website scraper, a web service, a game, and train a neural network.
Learning highlights
- Solve more complex problems by using data structures and algorithms on Python’s standard libraries.
- Python internals (for eg: how memory works in Python).
- Build real-life-like projects.
- Play around with many libraries for different use-cases (graphics, data analysis, web development, automation, machine learning).
Course outline
15 classes
Session 1
Snow Summit
Session 2
Snow Summit
Session 3
Python ecosystem. OOP refresher. Intro to the first project.
Session 4
Static code analysis.
Session 5
Testing and debugging. Practical session.
Session 6
Jupyter. Numpy.
Session 7
Data Visualization and manipulation.
Session 8
Basic ML libraries.
Session 9
Scraping data. Coding session.
Session 10
Python internals I: Interpreter and compilers.
Session 11
Python internals II: Memory management. Reference counting, garbage collection, GIL.
Session 12
Threading. C/C++ within Python.
Session 13
Mojo: A potential solution to Python’s issues.
Session 14
Practice session.
Session 15
Final Exam
Prerequisites
Methodology
There will be lectures, as well practical sessions where students will work individually on certain tasks and projects.
Grading
Anier started in computer science by doing programming Olympiads in high school, during which he obtained a gold medal in the Cuban National Olympiad and a bronze medal in the Ibero-American Olympiad in Informatics.
He has a BSc. in Computer Science and Data Science from Harbour.Space University. His main professional interest is Machine Learning Theory Research, and he’s an independent researcher.
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Intro to Programming - 3: Python
by Anier Velasco Sotomayor
Total hours
39 Hours
Dates
Jan 31 - Feb 16, 2024
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
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Will I receive a certificate after completion?
Yes. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate signed by the director of the program your course belonged to.
Do I need a visa?
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Can I get a discount?
Yes. The easiest way to enroll in a course at a discounted price is to register for multiple courses. Registering for multiple courses will reduce the cost per individual course. Please ask the Admissions Office for more information about the other kinds of discounts we offer and what you can do to receive one.