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Lab 3

Loops, Logic & VS Code

Iteration and decisions with a neuroscience twist — then your first step into a real code editor.

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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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    Intermediate Python

    Chapter 3 (Logic, Control Flow and Filtering) and Chapter 4 (Loops) — this lab, from another angle.

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    Project: Investigating Netflix Movies

    About an hour — loops, filters and a first plot on a real dataset.

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    Revise

    Your Lab 3 notebooks — loops and if / else, basics first, then the advanced ones.

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    Get started with VS Code

    The official VS Code tutorial: folders, the interface, settings, source control and the debugger. It builds a small web page rather than Python — the editor skills are the same.

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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.