Basic Python Programming for Earth Science and Engineering

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This course is designed for professionals in the earth sciences and engineering who have never learned to program or who learned programming many years ago and wish to brush up on the fundamentals of programming. The course covers the basic topics of structured (or procedural) programming—variables and expressions, functions, branching, looping, and arrays—using the Python programming language. However, unlike a traditional computer science course, which covers these topics in the abstract, this course teaches these topics through showing their use to accomplish tasks in an earth scientist or engineer’s workflow, such as data analysis, plotting, and modeling. The course uses the Cambridge University Press textbook, An Introduction to Python Programming for Scientists and Engineers. The instructor of the course is the lead author of the textbook.

At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

- Describe basic concepts and structures used in structured (procedural) programming.
- Read and understand a basic computer program.
- Use programming structures to accomplish basic science and engineering tasks.