If you study a technical subject, you can't avoid computers and programming. Hardly any device works without software.
But if you study with us, you don't have to be a computer expert. In the first semesters, we have courses in which you learn programming from scratch and without any special prior knowledge.
In mathematics and physics, for example, we introduce the Python programming language right at the beginning.
Python has several advantages:
- Particularly easy to learn
- Programs are shorter and easier to understand than many other programming languages
- No complicated installation necessary
- Can also be programmed online e.g. with a smartphone, e.g. on https://replit.com/
- Many scientific problems can be solved easily with Python
- Python is free of charge and is constantly being further developed by a large community
- Python is used in more and more companies
- For all questions around artificial intelligence Python is indispensable.
In mathematics and physics, data is then evaluated, graphics are created and calculations are performed with a few simple program lines. This makes understanding easier, and by the way you practice programming - and it's even fun.
If you know how to do it, problems that used to take days in former times can be solved with a computer in a few minutes - and that's exactly the kind of competence that companies expect from our graduates.
By the way, the name Python has nothing to do with the snake of the same name, but refers to Monty Python, the legendary British comedy group from the 1970s and 1980s.
The picture shows a section of the so-called Mandelbrot set. Python can be used to create fascinating images with little effort. If you feel like it, you can find the program code here.