Who are you?¶

Here are few things about you, the participants of the course, based on the questionnaire that many of you filled.

Programming background¶

You have been programming 3 years (median)
- Some of you have just started whereas some of you have programmed over 15 years
Many of you have experience either in Python (86 %) or R (71 %).
- You have experience also from many other languages such as Java, C, Javascript, Matlab, Pascal, PHP, Bash
Most of you understand the basics of programming well. Good!

You are fairly experienced in doing GIS! Median: 10.5 years (between 5 - 20 years), your average experience rating was 4.5 / 5.
Most of you have experience in Quantum GIS (86 %) and ArcGIS (86 %)
- You have also experience from many other GIS softwares / frameworks such as MapInfo, R, GRASS, PostGIS, Geoserver, GDAL, MapServer, MapProxy, Deegree, Sqlite/Geopackage, OpenLayers, Cesium, PDAL

What will be covered

Introduction to Python libraries for GIS
- Good! That is exactly what we are here for! 😎
Raster processing in Python
- The basics of raster processing in Python will be introduced but not any remote sensing stuff
How to use CSC computing resources?
- There is a short introduction included to the topic

What cannot be covered

Using ArcGIS + QGIS with Python
- Won’t be covered (would require separate courses) but there are some materials available:
  
  Introduction how to use QGIS with Python.
  
  Introduction how to use ArcGIS (arcpy) with Python.
How to use Python in web service backends?
- This is out of the scope of this course but I would recommend checking e.g. Flask (web framework) with GeoAlchemy2 or Psycopg2 for communicating between PostgreSQL / PostGIS database and the application, or as an alternative you can check Geodjango geographic Web framework based on Django.