initial_questionnaire.md

Initial Questionnaire

Use of Python

• What do you use Python for? (3 things)
• What are the main libraries that you use e.g. Pandas?
• Do you use virtual environments (conda, pip)?
• Do you use code from elsewhere e.g. collaborators?
• Do you share your code outside BGS?
• Do you write tests for your code?

Python features

Which of the following Python features do you use?

• list comprehensions
• loggers
• functions
• classes
• modules
• packages
• argument parsers (for command line tools)
• debuggers
• decorators
• generators
• threads
• multiprocessing

Tools

• What is your usual operating system (Windows, Linux server, WSL2)?
• What is your usual IDE (Spyder, VS Code, Jupyter)?
• Do you use GitLab and/or GitHub?
• Do you use ChatGPT or other AI tools?

BGS facilities

• Do you get Anaconda from the Company Portal?
• Do you know what the Nexus repository is?
• Do you come to the Python clinics?

Aims for the course

• What do you hope to learn from this course? (3 things)