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Testing out

Coming into the course, you're expected to be comfortable with the following:

  • Getting Python and Jupyter running locally
  • Using Jupyter
  • Markdown
  • Installing Anaconda packages
  • Python
    • Programs as files
    • Types
    • Conditionals and iteration
    • Understanding algorithms
    • Functions
    • Manipulating strings
    • Lists, dictionaries, and sets
    • Reading and writing to files
  • Data analysis and visualization in Python (using pandas)
  • How to read API documentation

For Spring 2025 only, during SIPA's transition to the new Concentrations, students can test out of the prerequisite. If you are interested in doing so, please read the following, then reach out.

Note that this pathway is specific to this course. This test does not waive the Computing in Context prerequisite for other courses, such as Applying Machine Learning (INAFU6503).

Test details

The test will:

  • Be taken in late December or early January, online, on your own schedule
  • Have a time limit of 90 minutes
  • Include both multiple choice and free response questions, including questions like:
    • "What would the result of this code be?"
    • "What does this code do, in plain English?"
  • Be relatively straightforward if you're comfortable with the topics above, very challenging if you're not

You won't be allowed to register yourself; once you take and pass the test, the instructor will have you manually added before the start of the semester. The deadline for the test is January 17th, and can only be taken once.

Coming from Python for Public Policy

For those who have taken Python for Public Policy (INAFU6504) but not Computing in Context, you will need to get more experience with Python fundamentals before taking the test. This is essentially making up for the extra seven weeks of Python you would have gotten in Computing in Context. In other words: it's possible, but will be a lot of work.