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

Certificates

There are no credit points, certificates or attendance confirmations available for (the voluntary) participation in this course.