Schedule¶
Daily schedule¶
Schedule for each day (using German local time):
10:00-12:30 |
Lectures (including break) |
14:00-17:00 |
Tutors available for help with exercises |
Morning: About 2 hours of taught material (with short break) delivered in lecture (via Zoom)
Afternoon: Self-paced problem solving during which students attempt programming exercises. Feedback on completed solutions is provided by a robot, and tutors are available to seek advice.
Taught material¶
Day 1: Slides 1 to 64
quick install with pixi, Python and IPython, prompt, REPL, Spyder, variables, print, type, help, dir, B, functions, import, bools, if-else, raising exceptions, lab1
Day 2: Slides 65 to 101, and 107-111
sequences, PEP8, loops
Day 3: Slides 103 and, 112 to 138
FIFO exercise, first plot, file input/output, string parsing, modules, name spaces, plotting data from csv file (1)
Day 4: Slides 169 to 225
catching exceptions, print and f-strings, dictonary, default and keyword arguments, venvs, pip, pixi, numpy
Day 5: Slides 226 to 256
Jupyter, matplotlib, testing, mexhat-example, pandas example
Course dates¶
Python for Computational Science part 1
Installation session on Friday 31 January at 10:00
Course takes place: Monday 3 February to Friday 7 February 2025, daily 10:00 to 17:00
Python for Computational Science part 2
Course takes place: Monday 17 February to Friday 21 February 2025, daily 10:00 to 17:00
Teaching delivery (online)¶
We will be using Zoom, and the links will be shared with you.
Teaching materials¶
Are available from http://desy.de/~fangohr/teaching
Teaching staff¶
and others (tbc)
Certificates¶
There are no credit points, certificates or attendance confirmations available for (the voluntary) participation in this course.