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Programming for Geographical Information Analysts: Core Skills (WUN)

Work through each lecture, then the associated practical. The practicals will introduce key concepts, but are basically a walkthrough. To get used to writing your own code from scratch, try and do one of the practice pieces each week. You may also like to follow through the introduction to debugging materials each week. Both are designed to match up with the lectures and provide extra skills.

 

Software you'll need to know before the first practical

Even if you think you're happy with these, check the pages and make sure you know how to use them fully:

Command Prompt/Terminal
Windows Explorer
Python (including getting started)
Notepad++ / TextEdit
Firefox/Chrome

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Intro
Practical

 
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Lectures Practicals
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Variables Agent Based Modelling
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Containers Code shrinking I
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Branching & Loops Code shrinking II
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Functions Building tools
Whether you work through the debugging materials or not, make sure at this stage you look at the part on documentation.
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Classes Agents!
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I/O I/O
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Modules Communicating
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Functional / Exceptions Animation / Behaviour
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GUIs / Web
GUI / Web scraping
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Wrapping up

 

Whether you work through the debugging materials or not, at this stage you may want to look at the parts on testing and continous integration.
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