Course Identification

Title:

Basic programming skills (Python)

Code:

20263062

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Mr. Gabor Szabo, Dr. Yaron Antebi

TA's:

N/A

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2026

Semester:

Second Semester

When / Where:

Sunday, 09:15 - 12:00, WSoS, Rm C

First Lecture:

15/03/2026

End date:

21/06/2026

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Life Sciences: Lecture; Elective; 2.50 points
Chemical Sciences: Lecture; 2.50 points
Life Sciences (Computational and Systems Biology Track): Lecture; Obligatory; Core; 2.50 points

Comments

Priority will be given to MSc and Ph.D. students under the Life Sciences Board of Studies.

Students should bring their personal laptops.

The course grade is based on 10 exercises and a final assignment that has to be submitted until the last learning day of the semester.

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

Participants:

30

Language of Instruction

English

Registration by

Registration By:11/11/2025

Attendance and participation

Expected and Recommended

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Interim:

50%

Final:

35%

Other :

15%

Other 15% is the project proposal

Evaluation Type

Final assignment

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

1

Syllabus

This is a beginner course suitable for anyone wanting to process scientific data with minimal or no prior knowledge.

All the details of the course, including the syllabus can be found here:

https://github.com/Code-Maven/wis-python-course-2026-03

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

Write simple data processing programs in Python
Convert files from one format to another format required in scientific environments.
Difrantiate between major programming environments.

Reading List

N/A

Website

https://github.com/Code-Maven/wis-python-course-2026-03