Online Python course 2021

This course is organized over three days. With the help of plenty hands-on exercises, you will get introduced into the different types of variables in Python, the peculiarities of Python and good programming habits. This course will provide you an ideal stepping stone for further developing programming skills in Python. Throughout the course we’ll stress the importance of ‘good programming practice’, such as clear variable names and adding comments to your code.

Date: 18, 25 March and 1 April 2021,  09:30 – 17:00
Venue: online course
First target group (registration open now): EPS PhD candidates and postdocs registered with EPS
Course fee: 55 Euro including a snack/drink package
Amount of participants: 25
Study load: 0.9 ECTS
Trainers: James Collier (VIB Bioinformatics Core) & Tuur Muyldermans (VIB Bioinformatics Core & ELIXIR Belgium)

This course is organized over three days. With the help of plenty hands-on exercises, you will get introduced into the different types of variables in Python, the peculiarities of Python and good programming habits. This course will provide you an ideal stepping stone for further developing programming skills in Python. Throughout the course we’ll stress the importance of ‘good programming practice’, such as clear variable names and adding comments to your code.

Objectives
– Learning the basics of Python programming: different variables, reading files, writing files, conditional statements.
– Being able to write a basic Python script from scratch.

Required skills
Aimed for people with no programming skills whatsoever.

About the trainers
Tuur Muyldermans is a bioinformatics trainer at the VIB Bioinformatics Core and ELIXIR Belgium. James Collier is a professional software developer with >10 years of experience working on software ranging from tiny embedded devices through to high-performance and web applications. He completed his PhD at Monash University on Australia and now works on scientific software within the VIB Bioinformatics Core.

Please register here.

If you have any further questions please contact Juliane Teapal. (Juliane.Teapal@wur.nl)