Plotting and Programming in Python

Schedule

Day 1	3:30 pm	1. Setup	Download files required for the lesson.
	3:45 pm	2. Running and Quitting	How can I run Python programs?
	3:50 pm	3. Variables and Assignment	How can I store data in programs?
	4:15 pm	4. Data Types and Type Conversion	What kinds of data do programs store? How can I convert one type to another?
	4:35 pm	5. Built-in Functions and Help	How can I use built-in functions? How can I find out what they do? What kind of errors can occur in programs?
	5:00 pm	Finish
Day 2	9:00 am	6. Libraries	How can I use software that other people have written? How can I find out what that software does?
	9:20 am	7. Lists	How can I store multiple values?
	9:40 am	8. For Loops	How can I make a program do many things?
	10:05 am	9. Writing Functions	How can I create my own functions?
	10:25 am	10. Variable Scope	How do function calls actually work? How can I determine where errors occurred?
	10:30 am	11. Refreshments / Stats / Lunch	Break
	1:30 pm	12. Reading Tabular Data into DataFrames	How can I read tabular data?
	1:50 pm	13. Pandas DataFrames	How can I do statistical analysis of tabular data?
	2:20 pm	14. Conditionals	How can programs do different things for different data?
	2:45 pm	15. Interacting With Web Services	How can I retrieve data from a public web service?
	3:00 pm	16. Refreshments	Break
	3:30 pm	17. Plotting	How can I plot my data? How can I save my plot for publishing?
	4:00 pm	18. Plotting Tidy Data With Seaborn	How can I best organize my data tables? How can I make plots from large complex data tables?
	4:30 pm	19. Programming Style	How can I make my programs more readable? How do most programmers format their code? How can programs check their own operation?
	4:50 pm	20. Wrap-Up	What have we learned? What else is out there and where do I find it?
	4:55 pm	21. Feedback	How did the class go?
	5:00 pm	Finish

The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.