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tags: teaching, swd1a
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# 2022-10-24 <br> SWD1a: Introduction to Python

Welcome to the hack pad for SWD1a course from Research Computing at the University of Leeds!

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## Contents

1. [Links to resource](#Links-to-resources)
2. [Agenda](#Agenda)
6. [What's your name and where do you come from?](#What’s-your-name-and-where-do-you-come-from)
12. [Further reading](#Further-reading)
13. [Extra code snippets](#Misc-code-snippets)
14. [Challenges](#Challenges)

## Links to resources

- **Contact Research Computing** - https://bit.ly/arc-help
- **Workshop Slides** - https://arctraining.github.io/python-2021-04/
- **Github repository** - https://github.com/ARCTraining/intro-to-python-2022-10
- **Research Computing website** - https://arc.leeds.ac.uk/
- **Installing Anaconda tutorial** - https://arctraining.github.io/python-2021-04/setup.html

## Agenda
| Time | Agenda |
| -------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| 1000 | Intro, What is Python? |
| 1050 | Break |
| 1100 | Python basics, Handling data, Pandas |
| 1200 | Lunch |
| 1300 | Indexing and slicing |
| 1420 | Questions |
| 1430 | Control flow and automation |
| 1600 | End |

## What's your name and where do you come from?

- **Add your own entry below using the edit mode**

## Further reading

- Python notebook magic commands - https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactive/magics.html
- Pandas documentation - https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/

## Misc code snippets