Advance your programming skills and build your own digital consent form

  • Course structure

    We will have a mixture of presentations to introduce you to the topics of the module followed by hands on sessions, getting you coding straight away. The self-paced nature of this course allows you to work on these exciting modules in a time-frame that suits you.

  • What will I learn?

    This course builds on the skills you learned in Module 0 (designed for absolute beginners) and takes you further into Python programming. You'll create a fully functional medical calculator app using Streamlit, solidifying your understanding of Python with practical, real-world applications. With step-by-step guidance, you'll confidently apply Python to healthcare and beyond.

  • Topics Covered

    Moving to slightly more advanced programming skills, but with very much small group teaching the whole way with well-paced hands-on sessions, topics you will learn include:

    • The terminal
    • Syntax
    • Variables
    • Comments
    • Control flow
    • Expressions and operators
    • Functions
    • Error handling
    • Web apps
    • Medical calculators

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome to Module 1 of Programming in Healthcare

    1. A Quick Refresher on Coding Environments

    2. Quiz - The Integrated Development Environment and common commands

    1. Functions and Errors

    2. Classes Explained on Whiteboard

    3. Classes and Modules

    4. Classes, Modules and Errors

    1. Create a GitHub account

    2. Setting up the Coding environment

    3. Follow the instructions

    4. Follow the instructions in the slides and then in the folder 'lesson_1', you will find two python files "excercise_1.py" and "exercise_2.py"

    5. Walk-through

    1. Time to build our first web app !!

    2. Follow the instructions

    3. Follow the instructions in the slides and then in the file 'exercise_1.py'.

    4. Walk through Part 1 (Exercises 1-4)

    5. Walk through Part 2 (Exercises 5-8)

    1. Close of session

    2. Feedback on module

About this course

  • £16.00
  • 19 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content

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