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<h2>Created for<a class="headerlink" href="#created-for" title="Permalink to this headline">#</a></h2>
<p>This tutorial is created for use in Python introductory courses at Hanze University of Applied Science,
Groningen, The Netherlands. You are free to use it for yourself; however see the <a class="reference download internal" download="" href="_downloads/468897456b752e0e7ba376b3fb1cd465/LICENCE.TXT"><span class="xref download myst">LICENCE.TXT</span></a> note.
The notebooks are bundled into an ebook that can be found here: <a class="reference external" href="https://michielnoback.github.io/pybook">https://michielnoback.github.io/pybook</a>.</p>
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<p>This repo contains a series of notebooks introducing programming concepts in Python in a data science
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You can view these notebooks here on github (simply click any file with the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ipynb</span></code> extension),
on <a class="reference external" href="https://nbviewer.org/">NB viewer</a> (nice & fast, but static) or
on <a class="reference external" href="https://mybinder.org/">Binder</a> (interactive, but much slower).<br />
Here are direct links to both:</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="https://nbviewer.org/github/MichielNoback/python_intro/tree/master/"><img alt="NBviewer" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jupyter/design/master/logos/Badges/nbviewer_badge.svg" /></a>
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<p>If you don’t trust links: In NBviewer, simply paste the URL of this repository in the text field and select one of the
notebooks, or paste the URL of a single notebook file directly. In Binder it works the same. Enter
the URL of this repo and press “launch”.</p>
<p>If you wish to work on the exercises, the hints will not look very nice or won’t work at all in NBviewer and some IDEs. MyBinder seems OK though.</p>
<p>For optimal experience with the exercises and interactive studying of the material, I suggest you either</p>
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<li><p>download the repo as zip file (click on green button “Code” near the top of the page) unpack on a suitable location</p></li>
<li><p>in <a class="reference external" href="http://github.com">github.com</a>, go to the notebook you wish to work on, open it, click “raw”, right-mouse-click on the contents and select “save as”. Be sure to remove the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.txt</span></code> extension that may be added.</p></li>
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<h2>The best cheat sheets<a class="headerlink" href="#the-best-cheat-sheets" title="Permalink to this headline">#</a></h2>
<p>A concise <a class="reference external" href="https://perso.limsi.fr/pointal/_media/python:cours:mementopython3-english.pdf">Python3</a> cheat sheet.<br />
A <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ehmatthes/pcc/blob/master/cheat_sheets/beginners_python_cheat_sheet_pcc_all.pdf">Python3 extensive</a> cheat sheet.<br />
A <a class="reference external" href="https://www.edureka.co/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jupyter_Notebook_CheatSheet_Edureka.pdf">Jupyter Notebook</a> cheat.</p>
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<p>Copyright (C) 2022-2023 Michiel Noback, Hanze University of Applied Science, Groningen, The Netherlands</p>
<p>See <a class="reference download internal" download="" href="_downloads/468897456b752e0e7ba376b3fb1cd465/LICENCE.TXT"><span class="xref download myst">LICENCE.TXT</span></a></p>
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