Code for the python sessions I led at AIMS institute in Ghana

The code in this repositary along with the guidelines on Python sessions home page can serve as a material for basic-level programming course in Python. Python sessions were held once or twice a week, each time concentrating on some programming concept, algorithm or computer science theory.

Since introductory programming courses can often get boring, these sessions focus on interesting examples or a bigger final goal. Thus, rather then going systematically through the details of the language syntax and structure, these are learned along the way to build the final script, e.g. a graph plotting application, or matrix-multiplicator.

Each session was about 60-90min long, and usually:

• some theory was explained first. The site contains the guidelines and some explanation to each session (up to session 11)
• some code was worked on together. This code (along with supporting files, if any) is always in the respective sXY_name_of_session folder. The code the teacher should work towards is in the solutions sub-folders of each session's folder
• finally, the students were given optional exercises, with task descriptions on the mentioned site. Solutions for the exercises are in the exercises subfolders of each session's folder.

AIMS is shortcut for African Institute for Mathematical Science. It has several branches accross Africa, and keeps expanding. It is a unique one year MSc programme for bright African students, founded by Neil Turok in his wish to find the next Einstein in Africa. I spent four months as a tutor at AIMS in Ghana, an amazing experience I will never forget. Hired mostly to help out with programming, I went on to create and carry these Python sessions.

Should you wish to find out more about my stay at AIMS, feel free to check out my blog.