Introduction to Python 2026/2027

Masters in Data Science applied to agricultural and food sciences, environment, and forestry engineering.

Instructor: Manuel Campagnolo (mlc@isa.ulisboa.pt)

Teaching assistant: Hannah Nathanson (hnathanson@edu.ulisboa.pt)

Revised class schedule: class (Friday, room 48) will start at 11:45 and end at 14:45, with a ~45 minute break for lunch.

• You need to self-register for the course in Moodle at https://elearning.ulisboa.pt/user/index.php?id=12863. The Moodle site allows you to access assignments; submissions; detailed grades and comments
• If you don’t have one already, create a GitHub account at https://github.com/signup
• CS50P: CS50’s Introduction to Programming with Python. Lectures (videos and notes), problems sets, shorts;
• CS50 codespace. VScode codespace that allows you to use a customized AI bot (CS50’s duck debugger, or DDB for short) and test your solutions for CS50P proposed problems (you can access the codespace with your GitHub user).
• Python tutor. Python Tutor is a online tool that lets you write code in a web…