Python for Health Sciences and Healthcare

2h 10mBeginner2023-10-12

Authors

Wuraola Oyewusi

Wuraola Oyewusi is an experienced data scientist, machine learning, and artificial intelligence professional.

Course details

There’s so much to learn when it comes to Python—where should you start? This course, with integrated CoderPad challenges, offers a focused starting point that teaches foundational principles and skills of Python programming that are useful to healthcare and health science professionals. Experienced data scientist Wuraola Oyewusi guides you through bringing Python programming to your career. Get started with general programming concepts, including Python naming conventions and keywords and much more. Set up a Colaboratory notebook and learn how to use the Coderpad portion of this course. Explore basic Python data types, data structures, and operations. Go over functions, statements, build-in functions, and other operations in Python. Dive into code documentation and Python libraries. Plus, build your skills with a series of challenges and solutions.

Skills covered

PythonData AnalysisProgramming LanguagesData ScienceBusiness Analysis and StrategyBusiness Software and ToolsOpen SourceSoftware DevelopmentOne-Off

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Learn Python for healthcare
02 - Python for health sciences and healthcare

1. General Programming Concepts

03 - What is programming
04 - What are programming languages
05 - Code editors
06 - Integrated development environment software (IDEs)
07 - Modules, libraries, packages, and systems
08 - Code versioning
09 - Version control and repositories
10 - Package managers and installers
11 - What is Python
12 - Python naming convention
13 - Python keywords

2. Setup and Workspace

14 - Colaboratory notebook (online)
15 - An overview of the Coderpad coding challenges

3. Python File Handling

16 - Open Python file
17 - Write Python file
18 - Read Python file

4. Basic Python Data Type

19 - Numeric data
20 - String data
21 - Boolean

5. Basic Python Data Structures

22 - Lists
23 - Tuples
24 - Sets
25 - Dictionaries
26 - Solution - Remove an element from a list
27 - Solution - Create a set from a list

6. Basic Operations in Python

28 - Arithmetic operations
29 - Comparison operations
30 - Logical operations
31 - Solution - Repeat string by integer multiplication
32 - Solution - Integer floor division

7. Python Functions and Statements

33 - Functions
34 - Conditional statements
35 - For loops
36 - Solution - Define a function
37 - Solution - Iterate over a list with for loop

8. Built-in Functions and Other Operations in Python

38 - Length and count function
39 - Minimum and maximum function
40 - Range and sum function
41 - String case functions
42 - Split and join function
43 - Strip and replace function
44 - Zip function
45 - Map function
46 - Slicing
47 - String formatting
48 - Solution - Return maximum value from a tuple
49 - Solution - Print elements in a list in lowercase
50 - Solution - Zip two lists
51 - Solution - Get list element using negative indexing

9. Code Documentation in Python

52 - Comments
53 - Docstring
54 - Error messages
55 - Official Python documentation

10. Libraries

56 - Import statement and aliasing
57 - Install and uninstall Python libraries
58 - Python data analysis libraries

Conclusion

59 - Next steps