Month 0 · optional · ~4 weeks, 1 h a day

Python and your setup

Your goal this month: write small Python programs and run a robot simulation in your browser.

Every course on this path assumes you can read and write Python. Half of all engineering jobs at humanoid companies name it, and most of the rest assume it.

You don't need a GPU or a robot. A normal laptop and a browser are enough for the whole path.

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Watch

The Python Tutorial ↗free, official

python.org

Read chapters 3 to 9: numbers, lists, loops, functions, modules, classes. Type every example yourself.

MuJoCo tutorial notebook ↗runs in Google Colab

Google DeepMind

Open it, press run, and watch a simulated scene move. No install needed. You'll come back to MuJoCo in Month 2.

What to focus on

→Variables, lists, dictionaries, loops and functions
→Reading an error message instead of panicking at it
→Running code in Jupyter / Google Colab
→Installing a package with pip

Practice task

Colab notebook coming soon

Three small programs, each under 50 lines:

a number-guessing game that runs in the terminal
a script that reads a CSV file and prints the average of one column
run the MuJoCo Colab notebook end to end and change one value in the scene

Milestone: by the end of this month you can

write a function that takes a list and returns something useful
install a library and import it
open a notebook in Colab and run a simulation

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