Coding Summer School for 2025
Welcoming & Course Overview Welcoming Welcome to the Coding Summer School 2025.
You have been invited to the Canvas learning environment. Make yourself familiar with it as all the content and quizzes/assignments will be presented here. Look out for further instructions around the 15 Jan 2024 to join Slack workspace where all communication and announcements will happen.
For now feel free to read the following overview of the CSS 2025 below.
- We have 30 research institutes in South Africa who will be part of the school as well as universities from neighbouring countries.
- We have over 800 postgraduate students and professionals who will taking part. The Coding Summer School (CSS) is jointly organised by the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) of the CSIR and the National Institute for Theoretical Computational Science (NITheCS). This joint effort was specifically motivated by a concept paper of the South African Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) that explores the possibility to broaden the scope of NITheP into a national institute/centre for theoretical and computational science. This is the 15th year an event of this kind has happened through the CHPC and 7th year in collaboration with NITheCS
We are all excited for you to join this landmark summer school!
Have a look below at all the different institutes involved:
Format
- Lectures & tutorials occur Monday to Friday
- Lecture & tutorial times: 09:30 - 16:00 with breaks each day
- Notes and exercises provided
- Certificates awarded to qualifying students
Week 1
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Week 1 topics:
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Data Science with Pandas
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Python Best Practices
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Workflow management: extract, transform, load (ETL)
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Exploratory data analysis (EDA) and management
Bash Basics
Week 2
- Week 2 topics:
Computational Thinking
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Probability Theory and Statistics
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Machine Learning
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Artificial Intelligence
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CHPC: Dr Werner Janse van Rensburg, Mr Binjamin Barsch, Dr Kevin Colville, Ms Nomlindelo Mfuphi
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NITheCS: Prof Francesco Petruccione, Mrs René Kotzé, Dr. Thuthukile Khumalo, Mr Aluwani Guga
- Simanga Mchunu