This course will meet on Wednesdays, from 11am to 2pm. The course begins on May 10, and the course ends on June 14. For this course you will need a computer.
Course Outline
Week 1 (May 8):
- Introduction to the course by Dr. Adam Gorka
- Keynote address by Jacob Tanner and Anita Shankar
- Overview of scientific programming in Python by Dr. Dylan Wagner
Course Structure Weeks 2 – 6:
- 11am: Scientific Programming: Introduction to the tools of the trade
- Creating your first code notebook in Jupyter lab.
- Demo Python for everything (art, music, web scraping)!
- 12pm: Professional Development
Week 2 (May 15):
- Scientific Programming:
- Basics of Python programming I –strings & numbers
- Tutorial & Assignment: Thinking with loops!
- Professional Development: Faculty panel discussion with Dr. Julie Golomb, Dr. Jessica Turner, and Dr. Baldwin Way.
Week 3 (May 22):
- Scientific Programming:
- Basics of Python programming II – Lists, dictionaries, and functions
- Tutorial & Assignment: Using Python dictionaries to change the meaning of pop songs!
- Professional Development: Discussion about social identity with Sophia Antoun
Week 4 (May 29):
- Scientific Programming:
- Python packages I – Pandas for numeric data
- Tutorial & Assignment: Charting meme stocks in Python!
- Professional Development: Graduate student panel discussion with Matt Schroeder (Clinical Neuorscience Lab), Jessica Cloud (Buckeye Brain Aging Lab), Yong Min Choi (Vision and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab).
Week 5 (June 5):
- Scientific Programming:
- Python packages II – Nilearn for brain data
- Tutorial & Assignment: Visualize and manipulate fMRI data.
- Professional Development: Discussion about microaggression with Sophia Antoun
Week 6 (June 112):
- Scientific Programming:
- Putting it all together – Do different people’s brains synchronize when watching movies?
- In Class Tutorial: Using Python to measure similarities between different people’s brains.
- Professional Development: Research environment etiquette discussion with Nathan McPherson (Clinical Neuorscience Lab), Eva Lout (Vision and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab), Nii Aryeetey (Z-lab), Shiane Toleson (Gorka Lab)