Introduction to Python Workshop

Laura Gutierrez Funderburk | Simon Fraser University | Callysto

Topics that will be covered:

• Use of for loops, if and while statements

• Function definition

• Array manipulation with numpy

• 2D visualization with matplotlib

By the end of this workshop, participants will build a simulation of an unfair probabilistic game involving 2 players

Workshop Pre-requisites:

• A laptop (access to internet or with Python and the Jupyter notebook module installed)

• Basic knowledge of probability (probability experiment, sample space, familiarity with experiments involving dice)

• Comfort with any programming language

Acknowledgements

Python code found in the WorkshopIntroToPython.ipynb notebook was based on Software Carpentry’s workshop material covered in http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-gapminder/