Quantitative Methods for Biologists

Harvard FAS

The goal of this camp is to introduce you to programming in the PYTHON environment and to show you the power this provides for analyzing data and for gaining intuition about the behavior of complex systems through the use of numerical simulations. Some of you, upon encountering in the previous sentence words like “programming” and “numerical simulations,” will feel the cold hand of fear grip your stomach, because you have never done any programming and, in fact, have tried to avoid math as…