Intro to Python Chaper

[howardbaek]

Purpose/implementation Section

What changes are being implemented in this Pull Request?

First draft of the "Intro to Python" chapter.

What was your approach?

I start with an introduction to Python, then touch on the main differences between R and Python, then talk about the major differences in Python for R users, which are mainly drawn from Primer on Python for R Users. Importantly, I briefly talk about OOP and classes, giving a small code snippet of a class in Python.

What GitHub issue does your pull request address?

This PR addresses https://github.com/datatrail-jhu/python/issues/2

Tell potential reviewers what kind of feedback you are soliciting.

Open to any feedback or comments!

New Content Checklist

• [ ] New content/chapter is in an Rmd file with this kind of format and headers.

• [ ] New content/chapter contains Learning Objectives and are in the correct format.

• [ ] Bookdown successfully re-renders and any new content files have been added to the _bookdown.yml.

• [ ] Spell check runs successfully in Github actions style-n-check).

• [ ] Any newly necessary packages that are needed have been added to the Dockerfile and image.

• [ ] Images are in the correct format for rendering.

• [ ] Every new image has alt text and is in a Google Slide.

• [ ] Each slide is described in the notes of the slide so learners relying on a screen reader can access the content. See https://lastcallmedia.com/blog/accessible-comics for more guidance on this.

• [ ] The color palette choices of the slide are contrasted in a way that is friendly to those with color vision deficiencies. You can check this using Color Oracle.

[github-actions[bot]]

No broken urls! :tada: Comment updated at 2024-02-15 with changes from 276e4fb424b5a37be085e34e3eacffcdf027348b

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No spelling errors! :tada: Comment updated at 2024-07-09-18:11:36 with changes from 0d537dcfdc9e0b01037abf8f34c04099187969f5

[howardbaek]

This looks great! I've left a few specific comments inline. A few additional questions:

• I couldn't see the two png files being referenced in the markdown. Should they be removed?
• Maybe we can expand on the reason for using Python or when to stick with R?

• I was using VSCode for the writing part, but since have switched to RStudio as my IDE and created a .Rproj file to facilitate my workflow. I'll look into those two png files and see if they are necessary!
• 100%. I can incorporate the knowledge from this video into this chapter.

[howardbaek]

NOTE to myself

To convert .Rmd to .md:

Get rid of the curly brackets around the python. Delete the R from .Rmd to make it a .md file Delete all knitr code chunks Replace the ottrpal image part with Till's syntax for including images.

To render locally: make "name_of_document" .ipynb.html

[howardbaek]

@tillahoffmann I've made more changes to 03-intro-to-python.md and committed that file. However, I'm not sure where these files came from:

• .ipynb_checkpoints/03-intro-to-python-checkpoint.md
• docs/03-intro-to-python.md
• 02-chapter_of_course_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-2-1.png
• 02-chapter_of_course_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-3-1.png

Is it safe to delete these files?

[tillahoffmann]

• Let's delete the .ipynb_checkpoints directory and add it to the .gitignore.
• Let's delete the python.Rproj and add *.Rproj to the .gitignore.
• Regarding the docs/03-intro-to-python.md, I'm not sure how that was created. Maybe @cansavvy has an idea?
• Regarding the _bookdown_files, I'll also defer to @cansavvy.

[cansavvy]

• Let's delete the .ipynb_checkpoints directory and add it to the .gitignore.
• Let's delete the python.Rproj and add *.Rproj to the .gitignore.
• Regarding the docs/03-intro-to-python.md, I'm not sure how that was created. Maybe @cansavvy has an idea?
• Regarding the _bookdown_files, I'll also defer to @cansavvy.

• Totally agree on getting rid of the .ipynb_checkpoints files and adding to the gitignore.
• The .Rproj file is not something automatically generated (I don't think) so should just be able to delete and that will be it.
• docs and _bookdown_files are what are ultimately published from for the website.

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No broken url errors! :tada: Comment updated at 2024-07-09-18:10:33 with changes from bab84da18bea82025a99cf1d1393d7f0c4345514

[howardbaek]

Following changes have been made:

• Delete .ipynb_checkpoints/ and add it to the .gitignore
• Delete python.Rproj and add to .gitignore

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Re-rendered previews from the latest commit:

• See preview of Bookdown here
• See preview of Coursera/Leanpub version here
• Download the preview of .docx file

Updated at 2024-07-09 with changes from 0d537dcfdc9e0b01037abf8f34c04099187969f5