A Practical Introduction to Programming for Life Scientists 1200-2PRNAPRZYWL

Programming Basics:

a program and a script; a short over

dat and algorithms that operate on it; programming paradigms

Programming in practise: IDEs, editors and debuggers

Elements of a computer program:

variables and their types

conditional statements

loops

advanced data structures, e.g. a queue or a stack

Most important utility routines

operations on strings

I/O operations, working on files

Main fields of studies for MISMaP

physics
biology
chemistry
biotechnology

Type of course

elective courses

Mode

Classroom

Course coordinators

Dominik Gront

Learning outcomes

After finishing this course, a student should:

be aware of basic concepts of computer programming

be able to formulate a formal algorithm for a simple problem

be able to write a computer program for a given algorithm

Knowledge of classic data structures such as a stack or a queue and algorithms that operate on them

Assessment criteria

Online exam: oral exam on Google Meet

In class exam: written test with about 20 questions. A student may be absent on two lectures without excuse

Practical placement

N/A

Bibliography

"Dive into Python" - free book available at http://www.diveintopython.net/

Additional information

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

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