Introduction to Programming for Solving Urban Challenges

(3 Credits)

A variety of technical skills are needed to build analyses that can help us to solve urban challenges. This course is designed to develop programming skills and to gain familiarity with the techniques, concepts, and models of urban informatics computing. Students will learn to program in python through a series of online tutorials, and will be exposed to the leading thinking on urban challenges through readings and discussion. Weekly lectures will demonstrate how these skills can be used to construct analyses through detailed code reviews. Finally, students will have the opportunity to practice these skills as they build an analysis of an urban challenge using real data.