INSY 5336. PYTHON PROGRAMMING FOR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS. 3 Hours.
Designed for aspiring data scientists, this course covers essential programming concepts and tools required to preprocess, manipulate, and analyze effectively. In this hands-on course, students will begin by learning the fundamentals of Python, including variables, data types, control structures (conditionals and loops), functions, data structures, file handling, and object-oriented programming. Building on this foundation, the course introduces powerful libraries used in data science, such as NumPy for numerical computing and Pandas for data manipulation.