Teaching
PhD Computing Thinking and Programming

PhD Computing Thinking and Programming

Academic Year 2024/2025

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This is a gentle introduction to computing thinking and the python programming language. It is intended for students of the PhD programme Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural studies. This crash course consists only of 4 lessons.

Course contents

Session 1

Module 1: Computational Thinking

Session 2

Module 2: Programming basics

Session 3

Module 3: Data

Module 4: Python for Poets (1 of 2)

Session 4

Module 4: Python for Poets (2 of 2)

  • 26/11/24

Teaching methods

The course is a combination of seminar and practical sessions. In either case, active participation of the students is expected.

Teaching tools

Seminars will be carried out with slides and coding will be carried out with jupyter notebooks. A painless alternative to run jupyter notebooks is Google’s Colab.

Office hours

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