You can get the slides of the course here. (these slides were made in cooperation with Philipp Blandfort. See the licence if you want to make copies/changes to it)
If you have never used or are not really comfortable with the command line (the “terminal”), I’d like you to watch the videos in the following links.
For Windows users (watch the first 5 videos): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6gx4Cwl9DGDV6SnbINlVUd0o2xT4JbMu
For Mac users: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKRYQsKR46I
Additionally, Mac users should take a look at the following video I uploaded for this week, “PATH tutorial”, which is an introduction to the PATH variable.
(If you are in Linux, I am assuming you know what you’re doing. Otherwise, watching the Mac users’ video is probably good enough)
To install Python, take a look at the following video. If you do not have an Informatics background, I would suggest you to follow the video even if you think you’ll manage to install Python without it. (I’d like to avoid things like “Conda”, because I don’t know it and if you end up having problems with it then I’ll possibly not know how to help you)
For both Windows and Mac users: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYXdXT2l-Gg
Watch the following video for getting to know what is Jupyter and why it is useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW29067qVWk
I intend to use Jupyter Notebooks to give you lecture notes almost every week. Hopefully, this will be a useful way for you to learn by doing.
Take a look at the following video I uploaded for this week, “Jupyter Installation” to have a notion on how to install Jupyter.