How to Learn to Code – Python for Data Science

Welcome 👋

This site hosts the UNC How to Learn to Code Python curriculum.
Read lessons here, run small code snippets live in your browser, or launch the full notebook in Google Colab with one click.

Lessons

#	Topic	Website page	Open in Colab
0	Introduction to Programming & Python	Lesson 0	https://colab.research.google.com/github/How-to-Learn-to-Code/python-class/blob/master/Lesson_0_Introduction/Lesson_0_Student_Version.ipynb
1	Operators and Data Types	Lesson 1	https://colab.research.google.com/github/How-to-Learn-to-Code/python-class/blob/master/Lesson_1_Basics/Lesson_1_Student_Version.ipynb
2	Iterables, Modules & Libraries	Lesson 2	https://colab.research.google.com/github/How-to-Learn-to-Code/python-class/blob/master/Lesson_2_Control_Structs/Lesson_2_Control_structs_student.ipynb
3	Abstraction & Functions	Lesson 3	https://colab.research.google.com/github/How-to-Learn-to-Code/python-class/blob/master/Lesson_3_Abstraction_Functions/functions_student.ipynb
4	File I/O & Pandas I	Lesson 4	https://colab.research.google.com/github/How-to-Learn-to-Code/python-class/blob/master/Lesson_4_FileIO/Lesson_4_student.ipynb
5	Pandas II	Lesson 5	https://colab.research.google.com/github/How-to-Learn-to-Code/python-class/blob/master/Lesson_5_Pandas_DataFrame/Lesson5_pandas_DataFrame_Student.ipynb
6	NumPy	Lesson 6	https://colab.research.google.com/github/How-to-Learn-to-Code/python-class/blob/master/Lesson_6_NumPy/Lesson_6_NumPy_Student_Version.ipynb
7	Plotting	Lesson 7	https://colab.research.google.com/github/How-to-Learn-to-Code/python-class/blob/master/Lesson_7_Plotting/plotting_student.ipynb
8-a	Intro to scikit-learn	Lesson 8a	https://colab.research.google.com/github/How-to-Learn-to-Code/python-class/blob/master/Lesson_8a_Scikit_Learn/scikit_learn_student.ipynb
8-b	The Python Ecosystem	Lesson 8b	https://colab.research.google.com/github/How-to-Learn-to-Code/python-class/blob/master/Lesson_8b_Python_Ecosystem/Lesson_8b_Python_Ecosystem_teacher.ipynb
8-c	Scanpy for single-cell	Lesson 8c	https://colab.research.google.com/github/How-to-Learn-to-Code/python-class/blob/master/Lesson_8c_scanpy/Lesson_8c_scanpy.ipynb

(Rows link to the rendered lesson pages; the right-hand URL opens the same notebook in Colab.)

Try an interactive Pyodide cell

Below is a small Python snippet running in your browser via Pyodide. Click Run Code to execute it:

sum([10, 20, 30, 40, 50])