ICPSR 2026 — Introduction to Python

A one-week introduction to Python for social scientists, taught at the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods. The course assumes no prior coding background and focuses on the practical skills social scientists need: data manipulation, web scraping, API usage, and basic natural language processing.

Slides

• Day 1 — Getting started with Python
• Day 2 — Flow control and data types
• Day 3 — Functions and object-oriented programming
• Day 4 — NumPy, pandas, and APIs
• Day 5 — Web scraping and text-as-data

Optional exercises

Working through these is the fastest way to build fluency. Each set takes 45–60 minutes. Solutions in separate links.

Day	Exercises	Solutions
1	Exercises	Solutions
2	Exercises	Solutions
3	Exercises	Solutions
4	Exercises	Solutions