Before you start

This site contains a set of tutorials aimed at providing an introduction to programming for beginners. The focus of the material is not on teaching the details of one programming language but rather to provide a broad overview of key concepts about programming. All tutorials use Python as the implementation language. The tutorials are intended to be especially useful for students in Social Sciences as reflected in many of the examples and applications covered.

Tutorials

1. Preliminaries.
2. Introduction to Programming.
3. Values, Variables, Operators, and Functions.
4. Iteration and Conditionals.
5. Basics of Algorithm Implementation.
6. Procedural, Functional, and Objected-Oriented Programming Paradigms.
7. Data Handling: The EU’s Labour Market.
8. Dynamic Programming: A Simple Life-Cycle Model with Human Capital.

About

These tutorials have been developed by students at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland).

Contributors

• Samuel Adams.
• Toma Baev.
• Jofre Bagan.
• Philipp Beck.
• Sebastian Behrens.
• David Böckling.
• Ralf Blöchlinger.
• Francisco Broccard.
• Alexandre Buchel.
• Ryan Cheng.
• Li An Chia.
• Alexandre Cruzado.
• Enis Dakoumi,
• Grégory Demaurex.
• Titouan Dupleich.
• Peder Dahlum Eide.
• Ruben Ernst.
• Yehudah Gol.
• Simon Haugeberg.
• Bryan Jacot-Descombes.
• Fabia Simone Jenny.
• Clémentine Jordan.
• Sophie Jung.
• Lucie Keller.
• André Kingsman.
• Daniel Kroning.
• Konstantin Kujundzic.
• Ee Xuan Lee.
• Curdin Lieberherr.
• Cher Lin Charis Low.
• Samuel Quick Lynaugh.
• Julia Matas.
• Lukas Mühlfriedel.
• Gustaf Wilhelm André Nordenlöw.
• Alessandro Pedrazzini.
• Joakim Myhre Rolfsøn.
• Andrea Salem.
• Orlando Saxer.
• Robin Scherrer.
• Jeremie Schnorf.
• Matthias Schuch.
• Mike Sipofo.
• Paul Spicher.
• Jonas Streule.
• August Strotz.
• Jérôme Studer.
• Philemon Thalman.
• Nicola Urech.
• Gianluca Vanacore.
• Alessandra Sofia Vollmer.
• Lovis von Richthofen.
• Laura Walser.
• Aline Zimmermann.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.