Welcome to IACS Python summer camp

Hi and welcome to the website for the IACS Computes! HS summer camp. During this camp, students will learn Python programming skills, get to know research challenges for which coding is necessary, and solve several issues from various disciplines, such as robotics, mathematics, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, etc.

• Dates: 13-25 August, 9am-3pm
• Location: IACS, Stony Brook University, NY
• Instructors: Alëna Aksënova, Sanket Deshmukh, Ayla Karakas

Please find the documents that we discuss in class in this folder. On this page, you will find information about the schedule, materials, and how to install anaconda.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

• Linus Torvalds

Schedule

The schedule is subject to change!

Time	August, 13	August, 14	August, 15	August, 16	August, 17
09:00	welcome + installation	warm up	warm up	warm up	warm up
10:00	arithmetics + variables	lists	strings	functions	errors + exceptions
11:00	data types + conditionals	lists	strings	functions	libraries
12:00	lunch	lunch	lunch	lunch	lunch
13:00	while loops	turtles	for loops	I/O	more functions
14:00	coding practice	coding practice	coding practice	coding practice	coding practice

Time	August, 20	August, 21	August, 22	August, 23	August, 24
09:00	warm up	warm up	warm up	student projects	student projects
10:00	dictionaries	practice	AI with Alëna	student projects	student projects
11:00	dictionaries	practice	Statistics with Sanket	student projects	student projects
12:00	lunch	lunch	lunch	lunch	lunch
13:00	advanced lists	invited talk: Thomas Graf	Robotics with Ayla	student projects	student presentations
14:00	coding practice	coding practice	coding practice	student projects	student presentations

Materials

Day 1 (Monday, August 13)

1. Basics.ipynb
2. Arithmetic.ipynb
3. DataTypes.ipynb
4. Variables.ipynb
5. Conditionals.ipynb
6. WhileLoops.ipynb

Day 2 (Tuesday, August 14)

1. Review.ipynb
2. Lists.ipynb
3. Turtles.ipynb
4. Practice.ipynb

Day 3 (Wednesday, August 15)

1. Strings.ipynb
2. ForLoops.ipynb

Day 4 (Thursday, August 16)

1. Functions.ipynb
2. IO.ipynb
3. IO-v2.ipynb

Day 5 (Friday, August 17)

1. AdvancedFunctions.ipynb
2. Errors.ipynb
3. Numpy.ipynb

Day 6 (Monday, August 20)

1. Dictionaries.ipynb
2. AdvancedLists.ipynb
3. Practice.ipynb

Day 7 (Tuesday, August 21)

1. What is computational linguistics?
2. Literature analysis with n-grams (folder)

Day 8 (Wednesday, August 22)

1. Warm-up
2. AI/NLP projects
3. Simulation.ipynb

Day 9 (Thursday, Auguest 23)

1. Towers of Hanoi
2. Tic Tac Toe
3. Text-based Adventure
4. Automated Trading

Day 10 (Friday, Auguest 24)

1. Survey!

Anaconda installation

1. Go to Anaconda's website
2. Scroll down and click on 'Download now'
3. Choose Python 3.6 version
4. Follow the instructions
5. Done!