We will utilize AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Bard, and Co-pilot to support the process of learning to code. Using Python as our teaching tool, participants will acquire skills that are transferable to other programming languages. We will explore how AI chatbots can be invaluable resources for understanding, writing, and refining code, as well as for facilitating transitions between different coding languages.

Workshop attendees will:

1. AI Fundamentals: Understand key concepts and terminology related to generative AI.
2. Practical Application: Use generative AI as a programming assistant to enhance coding efficiency, troubleshoot errors, and tackle projects with greater confidence.
3. Critical Evaluation: Develop the ability to assess the accuracy, reliability, and usefulness of AI-generated code and solutions.
4. Ethical and Practical Evaluation: Examine the ethical implications of generative AI, recognizing its strengths, weaknesses, biases, limitations, and potential for misuse.
5. Adaptability and Continuous Learning: Cultivate skills to continuously adapt to advancements in AI technology.

This workshop is also being offered on July 9 from 2-4PM

This is a hands-on introduction to using the command line interface. However, those who want to join as observers are welcome to register as well!

This workshop is designed for those beginning their exploration into command-line programming and anyone seeking to refresh their skills. A command line interface (CLI) is a quick and efficient way to perform computing tasks. A few of the topics that will be introduced include navigating the directory structure, commonly used commands, working with files and directories, and more.

If you are a hands-on learner and want to follow along, you’ll want to have access to bash shell. If you use macOS or Linux then you should have bash already installed. For those on Windows OS, you may need to install bash - unless you already have some kind of version or setup in place - I highly recommend installing Git for Windows, which is a BASH emulation used to run Git from the command line.

We will utilize AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Bard, and Co-pilot to support the process of learning to code. Using Python as our teaching tool, participants will acquire skills that are transferable to other programming languages. We will explore how AI chatbots can be invaluable resources for understanding, writing, and refining code, as well as for facilitating transitions between different coding languages.

Workshop attendees will:

1. AI Fundamentals: Understand key concepts and terminology related to generative AI.
2. Practical Application: Use generative AI as a programming assistant to enhance coding efficiency, troubleshoot errors, and tackle projects with greater confidence.
3. Critical Evaluation: Develop the ability to assess the accuracy, reliability, and usefulness of AI-generated code and solutions.
4. Ethical and Practical Evaluation: Examine the ethical implications of generative AI, recognizing its strengths, weaknesses, biases, limitations, and potential for misuse.
5. Adaptability and Continuous Learning: Cultivate skills to continuously adapt to advancements in AI technology.

This hands-on session introduces beginners to the fundamentals of regular expressions aka regex. In this workshop, we'll learn about regular expressions and their uses, explore syntax, pattern matching and metacharacters in Python. No prior experience required!

If you are a hands-on learner and want to follow along please install Anaconda. We'll be using Python & Jupyter Lab for the workshop -- installing Anaconda will allow you quicker access. If you wish to join and only be an observer that's perfectly fine as well! 

This workshop will introduce LaTeX, a typesetting system used to prepare documents and separate text from formatting. This introductory workshop will focus on using Overleaf, an online real-time collaborative LaTeX editor.