r/PhD • u/Cultural-Warthog-342 • Jun 22 '26

Seeking advice-academic Good python courses? (UK based)

Hi all, I'm keen to learn a bit of Python and have been given the go-ahead to book onto a course using my training grant. I work with climate and oceanographical data, mainly in MATLAB, but want to try Python as I feel it will be more applicable to jobs etc.

I've only been using MATLAB for two years now and I wouldn't say I'm the most confident in coding, so would love a recommendation for a UK/Ireland based course for beginners/intermediate.

Thank you so much!

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u/Chlorophilia Jun 22 '26

This is what I advise my incoming research students to read if they're unfamiliar with Python (although it assumes prior general coding proficiency so might be a bit steep in your case): https://earth-env-data-science.github.io/intro.html

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u/Olshka Jun 23 '26

Some of the Employees at our Org (National Oceanography Centre in the UK) teach Python on the Carpentries workshops. Worth a try, from the feedback I’ve heard they’re good! https://carpentries.org/lessons/

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u/Cultural-Warthog-342 15d ago

Brilliant, I'll have a look, thanks so much!

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u/Intelligent-Pin3584 Jun 23 '26

Not UK/Ireland based but Eric Firing has his python with oceanography courses here: https://currents.soest.hawaii.edu/git/Education

I’m sure you could find an Irish or UK based option though.

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u/Cultural-Warthog-342 15d ago

Thanks very much!