Introduction to Python

John McLevey
University of Waterloo

This is an optional course/workshop module on introductory Python. It is based on Chapter from McLevey (2022) Doing Computational Social Science, and was initially prepared for my Introduction to Computational Social Science course in the 2024 GESIS Fall Seminar. You can access the other repositories for the course via gesis24csspy.

Tutorial Notebooks

• Python Programming: The Basics
• Python Programming: Data Structures, Functions, and Files
• Processing Structured Data

How to Use these Materials

You can run the code in this repository using GitHub CodeSpaces. More instructions coming soon.