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continuously receiving calls and emails about the duration of the workshop. |
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Q. Is the workshop a single two-day workshop or a one day workshop |
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which is repeated on the second day? |
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A. Our workshop is a two day workshop. It is a single workshop. We |
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continue the second day from where we leave the first day. |
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Q. Can I attend only one day of the workshop? |
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A. No. We strongly advice you to attend both the days. We have designed |
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the workshop in such a way that every session has all the preceeding |
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sessions as pre-requisite. |
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For your convenience we are giving the schedule of the workshop here. |
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Please have a look at it. |
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+ Sage |
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- Getting started with Sage notebook (45 mins) |
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+ starting the server |
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+ getting help |
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+ overview of what's available in Sage |
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- Symbolics, Calculus & Basic Plotting(1 hr) |
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+ 3D |
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- Linear Algebra (45 mins) |
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+ Basic Plotting (using pylab) (1 hr) |
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- using the plot command interactively |
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- saving plots |
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- saving to scripts and running them (from ipython) |
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- running the same thing in sage notebook |
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+ Plotting Experimental Data (1 hr) |
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+ Arrays (1 hr) |
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- make a reference to earlier example of squaring as motivation |
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and say that there are loads of other goodies |
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using for and then use sin(an\_array) |
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Waiting for the sun to rise! |
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- FOSSEE Team |