Python for Health Sciences and Healthcare

Find out how you can use Python programming in the context of health care and health science.

Introduction

• Learn Python for healthcare
• Python for health sciences and healthcare

1. General Programming Concepts

• What is programming?
• What are programming languages?
• Code editors
• Integrated development environment software (IDEs)
• Modules, libraries, packages, and systems
• Code versioning
• Version control and repositories
• Package managers and installers
• What is Python?
• Python naming convention
• Python keywords

2. Setup and Workspace

• Colaboratory notebook (online)
• An overview of the Coderpad coding challenges

3. Python File Handling

• Open Python file
• Write Python file
• Read Python file

4. Basic Python Data Type

• Numeric data
• String data
• Boolean

5. Basic Python Data Structures

• Lists
• Tuples
• Sets
• Dictionaries
• Solution: Remove an element from a list
• Solution: Create a set from a list

6. Basic Operations in Python

• Arithmetic operations
• Comparison operations
• Logical operations
• Solution: Repeat string by integer multiplication
• Solution: Integer floor division

7. Python Functions and Statements

• Functions
• Conditional statements
• For loops
• Solution: Define a function
• Solution: Iterate over a list with for loop

8. Built-in Functions and Other Operations in Python

• Length and count function
• Minimum and maximum function
• Range and sum function
• String case functions
• Split and join function
• Strip and replace function
• Zip function
• Map function
• Slicing
• String formatting
• Solution: Return maximum value from a tuple
• Solution: Print elements in a list in lowercase
• Solution: Zip two lists
• Solution: Get list element using negative indexing

9. Code Documentation in Python

• Comments
• Docstring
• Error messages
• Official Python documentation

10. Libraries

• Import statement and aliasing
• Install and uninstall Python libraries
• Python data analysis libraries

Conclusion

• Next steps