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Programming Your World Introduction an ´ Breannd´ O Nuall´ ain o@uva.nl Amsterdam University College 31 August 2020

The programme for today 1. Getting acquainted

The programme for today 1. Getting acquainted 2. Getting oriented

The programme for today 1. Getting acquainted 2. Getting oriented 3. Getting informed

The programme for today 1. Getting acquainted 2. Getting oriented 3. Getting informed 4. Getting tooled up

The programme for today 1. Getting acquainted 2. Getting oriented 3. Getting informed 4. Getting tooled up 5. Getting started. . .

The source http://pyw.auc-computing.nl/ https://canvas.uva.nl

Course Manual http://pyw.auc-computing.nl/course-manual.html

Why study computing? ◮ to program

Why study computing? ◮ to program ◮ to become empowered

Why study computing? ◮ to program ◮ to become empowered ◮ to get organised

Why study computing? ◮ to program ◮ to become empowered ◮ to get organised ◮ to understand the digital world around us

Why study computing? ◮ to program ◮ to become empowered ◮ to get organised ◮ to understand the digital world around us ◮ to communicate with ICT professionals

Why study computing? ◮ to program ◮ to become empowered ◮ to get organised ◮ to understand the digital world around us ◮ to communicate with ICT professionals ◮ to be more informed citizens and leaders

Why study computing? ◮ to program ◮ to become empowered ◮ to get organised ◮ to understand the digital world around us ◮ to communicate with ICT professionals ◮ to be more informed citizens and leaders ◮ to develop an algorithmic way of thinking

Algorithmic Thinking

Applications ◮ Your world ◮ Science

Applications ◮ Your world ◮ agenda, assignments ◮ web, email, photos, music ◮ social networks ◮ Science

Applications ◮ Your world ◮ agenda, assignments ◮ web, email, photos, music ◮ social networks ◮ Science ◮ complex networks ◮ transmission of disease (influenza, HIV) ◮ levels: population, individual, protein interaction

Brain networks

Drug-Drug Interactions Mechanisms of drug combinations: interaction and network perspectives Jia Jia, et al. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 2009

Drugs & Target Proteins From Structural controllability of unidirectional bipartite networks, Jose C. Nacher & Tatsuya Akutsu, Nature Scientific Reports, 2013

Hierarchical Networks ◮ De Grote Griepmeting

Social Networks

Derived graphs from a social network

Applications AUC’s social network “Things Happen Faster in the Bubble” News Feeds Collect your own news Processing natural language NLTK examples in Python Machine Learning Scikit Learn examples

Programming languages ◮ Most popular programming languages ◮ Racket, Python, Javascript ◮ Learning versus Using. ◮ Designing versus tinkering. ◮ Necessary versus unnecessary complexity. ◮ Large programs.

Racket ◮ Racket ◮ a kind of Scheme, a kind of Lisp ◮ Paradigm: “Multi-paradigm: Functional, Procedural, Modular, Object-oriented, Reflective, Meta. . . ” ◮ Pedagogical, layered, graded languages. ◮ “Teach Scheme, reach Java” ◮ “systematic design” approach to problem solving.

Sources To get us started. . . ◮ The Racket programming environment ◮ The How to Design Programs book. (2nd edition)

Python ◮ Python, documentation ◮ Invention ◮ Ethos: scripting, prototyping, not so much programming as gluing. ◮ Many libraries ◮ Zen of Python ◮ 2nd language ◮ Used in other courses at AUC

Down to business. . . ◮ Class interaction ◮ Experimental inquiry, whatiffery ◮ Weekly 3 contact hours, 7 self-study hours, mostly programming. ◮ Time keeping, time use, ready to go: browser & DrRacket open. ◮ Attendance & punctuality. Late = absent. ◮ Laptop & telephone do’s and don’ts. ◮ Working sessions ◮ Assignments and evaluation. ◮ Take DrRacket for a test drive.