🐍 Learning Python at the University of Glasgow

This repository contains lecture notes (.ipynb) and slides (.html) for Learning Python Programming at James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow (UoG).

🔺Remark

Although this repository is available to students taking the course "ENG3092: Mechanical Engineering Skills 3" taught at UoG, it is prepared for a wide group of audiences who want to learn Python at their own space. With this in mind, the repository is pefectly suitable for the course "ENG2083: Introductory Programming 2".

📝 Author and Contact

• GitHub: khiemnguyen0407
• Email: khiem.nguyen@glasgow.ac.uk

📂 Repository Structure

Directory	Description
lecture_notes	Jupyter Notebook for lecture notes designed for each major topic in learning Python
slides	Quarto .qmd files and generated .html files for lecture slides
slides/figures	Contain subfolders each of which store the figures for one specific topic slide. For example, slides/figures/python_functions contain all the figures necessary for running/compiling python_functions.qmd
slides/python_xxx	Folders that are generated by running the corresponding .qmd files. For exmaple, by compiling python_functions.qmd the folder with name python_functions_files is generated.
advanced_learning	Contain lecture notes and code to learn advanced topics such as computing on GPUs, multithread computing

For students: Please read this

This repository is constantly updated throughout the semesters to reflect the questions raised in the lectures. Therefore, it is a good idea to download from time to time this repo and overwrite the old version in your local machine. I recommend you to download every two weeks or every week, especially when you see the new updates shown in the github.

Download from GitHub Website

• Without experience with git control
  The easiest way is to download this repository from the Github https: Link to this Repo. Click on the Green Tab <> Code when you access the above link, and then choose Download ZIP. Unzip the entire downloaded .zip file.

• With experience with git control
  If you are familar with git control, then you can clone the the repository by using the git command. Note that you can copy this command by hoving the mouse to the command, and then the copy icon appears on the right of the banner.

  git clone https://github.com/khiemnguyen0407/uog-python

  After cloning the repo, you can update this repo by pulling the new content from time to time with the command.

  git pull

  The advantage of using git control and GitHub is that you can make pull request and becomes a contributor for this repo. It is a way to impress your friends 🤗.

Directory lecture_notes

The lecture notes are prepared in Jupyter Notebook format. Students at James Watt School of Engineering, UoG only need to study up to lecture $8$ for plotting in Python.

Currently, the lecture notes cover:

1. Variables and operators
2. Control flows
3. Built-in data structures
4. Functions
5. Object-oriented programming
6. NumPy
7. Matplotlib
8. Errors and exceptions

Directory slides

The slides are prepared using Quarto with format: revealjs. You can examine .qmd files which are nothing but Markdown and python code. Quarto renders the .qmd file to an .html that can be read on any web browser. You need to put the corresponding filenameXXX_files in the same path at which the file filenameXXX.html is. For example, python_functions.html must be in the same path of the folder python_functions_files.

Currently, the slides cover:

Topic	.html file	.qmd file
Recap: Basics of Python	python_recap.html	python_recap.qmd
Functions	python_functions.html	python_functions.qmd
Object-oriented programming	python_oop.html	python_oop.qmd
Special methods in OOP	python_special_methods.html	python_special_methods.qmd
NumPy library	python_numpy.html	python_numpy.qmd