On Friday 21st January 2022 I attended an online training course hosted by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and delivered by Dr Stephen Lynch. The course was titled Python for A-Level Mathematics and Beyond, and was marketed at delegates with "no prior knowledge of programming".
At the beginning of the workshop I started to live-tweet...
I'm gearing up to take part in a course from @IMAmaths on "Python for A-Level Mathematics". I'm woefully under-skilled on the Python front so I hope I can keep up...
— Tom⇒maths AMIMA (@TeaKayB) January 21, 2022
... but very soon needed to concentrate too much to be able to continue. As a handful people seemed to be interested in the content I thought I'd write up my experience here.