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OLET1307: Beginner Programming for Data Analysis
2023 unit information
This OLE will provide the fundamentals of computer programming with a focus on developing skills for data ingesting, quality/format validation, format conversion, and summarization. It will teach these skills in Python, an easy-to-learn yet powerful, general-purpose scripting language used widely in industry and academia, especially for data science projects.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Computer Science
| Code | OLET1307 |
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| Academic unit | Computer Science |
| Credit points | 2 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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INFO1903 OR DATA1002 OR DATA1902 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Ability to automate a computational process typical of data science activities, when given a clear account of the task, or of the algorithm to be applied. This will be done by writing Python programs with core techniques of imperative programming.
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