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title: '2022-10-24 <br> SWD1a: Introduction to Python'
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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

