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Lab 1

Setup & First Steps

Guided slide decks combining a recap of the lecture material with hands-on practice notebooks.

1

Using Notebooks

  • →Colab basics
  • →Cells & shortcuts
  • →Your first notebook
  • →Practice notebook
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2

Variables & print

  • →Store values in variables
  • →Naming rules
  • →print() & f-strings
  • →Practice notebook
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3

Data Types

  • →int, float, str, bool
  • →Checking with type()
  • →Converting between types
  • →Practice notebook
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4

Operators

  • →Arithmetic & string ops
  • →Comparisons & booleans
  • →A first mini-program
  • →Practice notebook
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5

Terminal Usage — Windows & Mac

  • →Why the terminal?
  • →Navigating the file system
  • →Running Python from the terminal
  • →Cheatsheet
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Independent Practice

In your own time, before next week. Your DataCamp access comes with the course — sign in with your Sussex email.

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    Revise

    Lecture 1 and your Lab 1 notebooks — re-run the cells you had to fix.

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    Intro to Python for Data Science

    Chapter 1 (Python Basics) and Chapter 2 (Python Lists) — preparation for next week.

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    Introduction to Shell

    Takes the terminal session further — develop a genuinely useful skill.

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I can see chapter progress in the classroom, so I will know which parts the year found hard — that is what it is for.

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Resources & Cheat Sheets

Downloadable one-page references — Python basics & terminal commands.

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