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The course gives students knowledge and skills to study the next courses "Machine Learning" and "Modern Methods of Machine Learning", included in the second semester of the syllabus.

Content

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The course teaches programming concepts using Python programming language. The emphasis is put on the tools for data processing and visualization, provided by the Python environment - NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib libraries - , which are widely used for in artificial intelligence such as machine learning, data science, big data. The course includes acquaintance with the basic constructions in Python: data types, variables, expressions, operators, statements, functions, character strings, files and others. Specific Python data structures are presented - lists, dictionaries, tuples. The Python tools for implementation of network applications and web services are presented. Work with databases and SQL is also included.