Python Bootcamp

Welcome to the MSCF Python Bootcamp – a 3-week intensive covering Python fundamentals, data tools, and high-performance computing. This course is the shared foundation for all MSCF summer programs.

Week 1 – Python Fundamentals

Day	Topic	Tutorial
Mon	Setup and Installation	Installing Python, Anaconda, Jupyter Notebook
Mon	Variables and Types	Variables, types, arithmetic, casting, input/output
Tue	Logic and Conditionals	Booleans, logical operators, if/elif/else
Tue	Terminal Basics	cd, ls, pwd, mv, cp, navigating directories
Wed	Git and GitHub	Version control, init, add, commit, push
Wed	Loops and Iteration	for, while, range, break, continue
Thu	Data Structures	Lists, tuples, sets, dictionaries, nested structures
Thu	NumPy	Arrays, vectorized ops, reshaping
Fri	Office Hours

Week 2 – Data and Tools

Day	Topic	Tutorial
Mon	Pandas	Series, DataFrames, CSVs, filtering, groupby, missing data
Tue	Visualization	Matplotlib and Seaborn
Tue	APIs and JSON	requests, JSON parsing, API to DataFrame
Wed	Error Handling	try/except, debugging strategies
Wed	Functions	Defining, arguments, return values, scope
Thu	Packaging and PyPI	Package structure, pyproject.toml, publishing
Fri	Office Hours

Week 3 – High-Performance Computing

Day	Topic	Tutorial
Mon	HPC Onboarding	TACC account, SSH, MFA, first login, filesystem tour
Tue	Jupyter on HPC	Connecting to Vista, running notebooks on compute nodes
Tue	HPC Terminal Skills	Permissions, vim/nano, curl, piping
Wed	Slurm and Job Submission	Batch scripts, sbatch, squeue, scancel
Thu	HPC Data at Scale	Monitoring jobs, Pandas/NumPy at scale on Vista

How to Use This Site

Before class: Pull the latest from the repo
```
cd python-bootcamp
git pull
```
During class: Follow along on the tutorial page
Practice: Open the notebook in the lesson folder and complete the exercises
Submit: Upload your completed notebook to Canvas

Morehouse Supercomputing Facility – ashley.scruse@morehouse.edu