Optionally, from 1:00-1:30, the instructor will provide assistance with setting up your computing environment. From 1:30 onward, we’ll bring participants from their first line of code to foundational programming skills including data structures, conditional logic, and looping. Then, we will survey ways for librarians to apply python programming: e.g. working with databases for research or collection management (SQL), making data pipelines for analytics or cleaning (pandas), and automating workflows in web applications such as searching (robotic process automation).

There are no prerequisites. Starter code and notes will be provided to facilitate exercises during the session. Code for the examples will also be provided.