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Syllabus PYTHON FOR BIOMEDICAL SCEIENCES - 76638
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Last update 19-08-2019
HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: Programming Instruction Unit

Semester: 1st Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Ein Karem

Course/Module Coordinator: Gadi kasir

Coordinator Email: gadi@hadassah.org.il

Coordinator Office Hours:

Teaching Staff:
Dr. David Dayan
Mr. Gadi Kassir

Course/Module description:
Understanding computer programming, learning to program and solve problems using python.

Course/Module aims:
Presenting the computing principles, learning to program in Python.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Understanding the computing principles, ability to program in Python

Attendance requirements(%):
0

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Frontal lectures,in a computer lab, weekly programming assignments

Course/Module Content:
Python Interpreter
Variables, statements, expressions, built-in functions
Input/Output, using files
Program execution, from a file, interpreter, compiler
Strings, strings functions
Branching and decisions, Boolean expressions, if statement
Defining Functions
Data Containers, lists, tuples, dictionaries, sets
Nested Data structures, Repetitions.

Required Reading:
NA

Additional Reading Material:
Recommended: Google python course : https://developers.google.com/edu/python/
Python official documentation:
http://www.python.org/doc/

http://interactivepython.org/courselib/static/thinkcspy/index.html
http://cscircles.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/
http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.pdf
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Think_Python
http://files.swaroopch.com/python/byteofpython_120.pdf
http://www.itmaybeahack.com/book/python-2.6/html/index.html
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/
http://pymbook.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 100 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

Additional information:
It is required to hand in 2/3 of the programming exercises.
 
Students needing academic accommodations based on a disability should contact the Center for Diagnosis and Support of Students with Learning Disabilities, or the Office for Students with Disabilities, as early as possible, to discuss and coordinate accommodations, based on relevant documentation.
For further information, please visit the site of the Dean of Students Office.
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