Course Description
One-week intensive introductory programming course for students with biological background. The course provides the students with hands-on programming experience in analysis of biological data.
Athena Title
PROGRAMMING FOR BIO
Non-Traditional Format
The course will encompass two sessions daily, from 10:30AM - 12:00PM and 2:00PM - 3:30PM. One full week Monday-Friday, 15 hours of hands-on composing of computer programs to manipulate data.
Semester Course Offered
Offered summer semester every year.
Grading System
S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Course Objectives
Students will learn to write simple computer programs to manipulate data and perform simple computations.
Topical Outline
General program structure; constants and variables; input and output; arrays; loop.
Syllabus