Treffer: THE ROLE OF PYTHON PROGRAMMING COURSE IN NATURAL SCIENCES.

The study of Natural Sciences often leads to Data Science, a trending topic among skilled professionals and organizations. Data Science is the newest field that promises to revolutionize industries, businesses, government, health care, and academia. A data scientist should own mathematical expertise, strong business and technology skills. With the development of higher education, teaching methods, courses content, the technology used in the learning process, and the curriculum system should reform to adapt to the needs of society. Some data scientists have studied Computer Science. Meanwhile, many others come from Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, or Biology backgrounds and don’t have programming skills. This article shows the role of programming in Natural Sciences study programs in Universities and suggests the programming course content. Many data scientists and software developers use Python to predict outcomes, automate tasks, streamline processes, and offer business intelligence insights. Python provides many functions to Data visualize and data analysis. Python syntax is easy to understand and write, which makes it very popular. With the advantages of Python, the Natural Sciences students create the main skills in data science, mathematical computations libraries, and data analysis. The methodology used in this research is the SciPy, the main Python library that includes linear algebra, integration, optimization, and statistics modules. Another library is NumPy. It is a perfect tool for scientific computing and performing basic and advanced array operations. Matplotlib is a standard data science library that generates data visualizations, such as two-dimensional diagrams and graphs (histograms, scatterplots, non-Cartesian coordinates graphs). This article aims to emphasize the role of the Python programming language in all the study programs in Natural Sciences. It discusses the course content of Python Programming, the main ideas to cover to create the basic knowledge of Data Science. It suggests that Natural Sciences students should master these three libraries: NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib. It describes each of these libraries with main functionalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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