Master 2025/2026

Introduction to Python

Type: Compulsory course (Economics and Economic Policy)

Delivered by: Department of Applied Economics

When: 1 year, 1 module

Online hours: 40

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Konstantin Lvovich Polyakov

Language: English

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course aims to teach everyone the basics of programming computers using Python. We cover the basics of how one constructs a program from a series of simple instructions in Python. The course has no pre-requisites and avoids all but the simplest mathematics. Anyone with moderate computer experience should be able to master the materials in this course. This course will introduce the core data structures of the Python programming language. We will move past the basics of procedural programming and explore how we can use the Python built-in data structures such as lists, dictionaries, and tuples to perform increasingly complex data analysis.