title: Programming for physicians: A free online course.
abstract: This article is an introduction for clinical readers into programming and computational thinking using the programming language Python. Exercises can be done completely online without any need for installation of software. Participants will be taught the fundamentals of programming, which are necessarily independent of the sort of application (stand-alone, web, mobile, engineering, and statistical/machine learning) that is to be developed afterward.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Pieter L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Kubben
keywords: Big data; data science; information technology; programming; statistics