CS109
Intro to Programming - 3: Python
Faculty
Igor Slinko
Computer Vision Engineer at SportTotal.tv
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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
- As a result of the course, the students will solve various problems on algorithms and data structure using Python
- Learn to write more complex programs
- Learn how to plan a project
- Gain confidence when using third-party libraries
Course outline
15 classes
Session 1
Using Numpy library to speed up algebraic calculations
Session 2
Data visualization with Matplotlib
Session 3
Practice session
Session 4
Everything you need to know about regular expressions
Session 5
Text classification with FastText. Practice with emotion classification
Session 6
Writing Telegram bot
Session 7
Practice session
Session 8
Writing multithread website scraper with BeautifulSoup and joblib
Session 9
Practice session
Session 10
Writing a platformer game with PyGame
Session 11
Writing a web-service that can handle GET and POST requests
Session 12
Practice session
Session 13
Using MediaPipe to create custom face masks.
Session 14
Exam rehearsal
Session 15
Final Exam
Course materials
Media
Methodology
Сode examples and code assignments, live testing, homework, final exam.
Grading
Ex. Samsung AI Center, Yandex, VK, Brickit.app, OneSoil Master of Computer Science at MIPT
Igor Slinko obtained a Master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science at MIPT (Moscow). After that, he worked as C++ and Python developer at Yandex. Several years later he turned his attention to Data Science and Computer Vision. He switched to a researcher position at Mail.ru, and also started teaching Machine Learning at HSE (Moscow). Then he became team lead at a newly developed Samsung AI Center, where he developed Computer Vision algorithms in Robotics. He also collaborated with Michael Romanov to create an open course called "Neural Networks and Computer Vision" which amassed an audience of 50k students.
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Intro to Programming - 3: Python
by Igor Slinko
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
Apr 11 - Apr 29, 2022
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.
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