Documents and Problem Sets for CSES 7960 - AgInformatics: Python Programming for the Applied Sciences
Developed by Dr. Scott McElroy, Professor, Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences at Auburn University with contributions from Dr. Nathan Hall, PhD
The class SYLLABUS is available. Please take a look. I suggest one of two books for the class The Self-Taught Programmer is a great starter but it is in Python 3 and the class is primarily Python 2 (class will change in near future). Second is Python for Informatics which is a good general starter text and it is written for Python 2 (at least the version I have is). The most important resource is Google. Can't find an answer? -- Google it. Didn't find an answer after Googling it? -- Google it a different way.
Sections:
Week 1: Introduction to BASH
Week 2: Introduction to Python
-
Conditional Statements and Iteration (Loops)
Week 2 Assignment: Calculating the nth prime number
Week 3
-
Week 3 Assignment: Guessing Game: Search Algorithms
Week 4
-
Week 4 Assignment: Hangman Problem, Word List
Week 5
-
Week 5 Assignment: Count Letters in a String
Use your solution: Use your program to count nucleotides in this string. Email me your figure and final count.
Week 6
-
Week 5 and 6 Assignment: The Crop Object
Week 7
Week 8
Week 7 Assignment: Search and Return
You will need these files: FASTA and Trinotate
Week 9
-
Executing Functions in the Command line
Week 9 Assignment: Extend the Gutenberg Project to take command line arguments and object oriented programming. Write the output figure to a new file.
Week 10
-
Week 10 Final Project: Final Project
Additional links and resources:
-
I highly recommend this for learning git: Codecademy Learn Git. It has a fee but it is well worth it.
Terminology:
Iteration, abstraction, dot notation, decomposition, inheritance, instantiation,