Coding fundamentals for humanists
A course overview
Content from the webinar slides for easier browsing.
The course
Website (https://dhsi-2025.netlify.app/)
Overview
- Core concepts of programming languages
- Intro to Python and JupyterLab
- Basics of Python
- Using LLMs to write code
- API querying in Python
- Webscraping with Python and LLMs
- Your turn: get data from a website via an API or scraping
- Presentations: share your results, problems encountered, and what you learnt
New this year
Pre-written Jupyter notebooks to fill
Example of notebook given to students:
Example of completed notebook:
Use of LLMs to teach Python
It allowed students:
- to be much more independent,
- not to get frustrated over small road-blocks,
- to go much further than in previous years,
- to keep learning on their own,
- to now be able to apply Python to their research
On our end, we learnt how to better use LLMs to teach
Samples of students results
Reddit data
Numbers of published books
Spotify playlist
The Guardian archives
