Week 2

The goal of this lab is to give you the tools you need to start building robust functions which can make useful calculations on large datasets.

To that end, we'll cover the following:

• More Python Basics
• Loops
• Generator Iterators
• NumPy
• NumPy Arrays
• Array Operations

setup

(As of January 2026)

1. Fork this repository.
2. Clone this repository using VS Code or using GitHub.
3. See the environment.yml file. Create this environment locally using conda env create -f environment.yml and load it, or use an existing environment that already has these packages installed.
4. Edit your repository, commit as you go, and push your changes to your fork.