Prerequisites Google account to sign in to Google Colab (colab.research.google.com)Laptop running macOS, Linux, or Windows (a laptop is strongly recommended over a tablet)Python is a high-level, general-purpose, open-source programming language and one of the most widely used languages for both scientific computing and general programming. This crash course gives an overview of Python and programming fundamentals, then shows how to use Python for data processing, analysis, and visualization. What you'll learn Understand the basic components of a Jupyter notebookWrite and debug basic Python codeUse functions, loops, and conditional statementsProcess datasets with Python’s data science libraries (e.g., pandas, NumPy)Create basic data visualizations with libraries such as Matplotlib