silverfield/pythonsessions

Code for the python sessions I led at AIMS institute in Ghana # Fero's Python Sessions Code for the python sessions I led at AIMS institute in Ghana ## About the course The code in this repositary along with the guidelines on Python sessions home page can serve as a material for basic-level programming course in Python. Python sessions were held once or twice a week, each time concentrating on some programming concept, algorithm or computer science theory. Since introductory programming courses can often get boring, these sessions focus on interesting examples or a bigger final goal. Thus, rather then going systematically through the details of the language syntax and structure, these are learned along the way to build the final script, e.g. a graph plotting application, or matrix-multiplicator. Each session was about 60-90min long, and usually: * some **theory** was explained first. The site contains the guidelines and some explanation to each session (up to session 11) * some **code** was worked on together. This code (along with supporting files, if any) is always in the respective sXY_name_of_session folder. The code the teacher should work towards is in the **solutions** sub-folders of each session's folder * finally, the students were given optional **exercises**, with task descriptions on the mentioned site. Solutions for the exercises are in the exercises subfolders of each session's folder. ## About my stay at AIMS AIMS is shortcut for African Institute for Mathematical Science. It has several branches accross Africa, and keeps expanding. It is a unique one year MSc programme for bright African students, founded by Neil Turok in his wish to find the next Einstein in Africa. I spent four months as a tutor at AIMS in Ghana, an amazing experience I will never forget. Hired mostly to help out with programming, I went on to create and carry these Python sessions. Should you wish to find out more about my stay at AIMS, feel free to check out my blog.