🎓 Welcome to FYCodeLab!

A place for beginner-friendly and biologist-friendly programming and data science courses.

For learning how to code, Coding-Intro is for you. More courses are on the way! If you’re a teacher have a look at the Classroom Activities.

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📂 Programming Courses

📘 Coding-Intro : A beginner-friendly programming course covering the basics of R and Python.

• Chapter 1 - The Basics
  📖 Learn the fundamentals of R programming, including syntax, data structures, and basic operations.
  🔗 Open the course in Google Colab:
       
   

• Chapter 2 - What are libraries ?
  📖 Learn how to use libraries and why they are so important and useful in programming.
  🔗 Open the course in Google Colab:
       
   

• Chapter 1 - Basic functions
  📖 Learn the basic operations and functions.
  🔗 Open the course in Google Colab:
       
   

• Chapter 2 - A simple guide to libraries
  📖 Learn how to use simple libraries and why libraries are so important and useful in programming.
  🔗 Open the course in Google Colab:
      
   

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📂 ClassRoom Activities

Code and tools for live classes to illustrate key points of programming, statistics, AI and biology

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🔬 Malassez Grid Counting Game — Hands-on Cell Counting for Biotech Students

🧫 An interactive web-based mini-game to practice manual cell counting on a Malassez grid. Designed for students in biotechnology, bioengineering, and related life sciences, this tool simulates cell dispersion under a microscope and helps learners estimate cell concentration (cells/mL) by comparing their guess to real results.

🎮 Try it now in your browser (no install): 👉 Open the Game

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🍬 SweetSpot — The Power of Aggregated Data

📦 A playful experiment using a jar of sweets to demonstrate how data science, visualization, and statistics can reveal the surprising power of group estimation. Also, learn how to plot data with the ggplot package in R !

🔗 Open the interactive notebook in Google Colab:    

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🧬 Intro to Biopython — Hands-on Genomics for Beginners

📦 A beginner-friendly introduction to Biopython, showing how to access NCBI databases, download real genomic data (the woolly mammoth’s mitochondrial genome!), and visualize gene annotations using Python tools. Great for students in bioinformatics and biotechnology.

🔗 Open the interactive notebook in Google Colab:  

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🤖 ESPy Robotics — A microelectronics kit for beginners

A compact, beginner-friendly collection of CircuitPython projects for the ESPY microcontroler card (included in kit). It includes colorful LED animations, tilt-controlled games, and small utilities (clock, timer, weather) that teach core microelectronics skills, without wiring, soldering…

Repo: FYCodeLab/espy-robotics › exemples

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🎯 Future Courses and Tools (Coming Soon)

✔ Useful libraries for the beginner
✔ Machine Learning Basics
✔ Data Science Fundamentals

We are actively working on new content to expand your programming skills!

💡 Follow the repository to get notified of updates and new courses.

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👨‍💻 What is FYCodeLab?

✅ Beginner-friendly explanations
✅ Hands-on coding exercises aimed at biologists
✅ Real-world applications for biotech and more

“Learning is fun when it’s simple and interactive!” ✨

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📬 Stay Connected

Have questions or suggestions? Feel free to open an issue or reach out! 🚀