# HG changeset patch # User Puneeth Chaganti # Date 1291829669 -19800 # Node ID 7de34186254ecc75559db56079d2ff088daaaba4 # Parent 3f21f7e57e9d498f0aa0a5c90e8f69a3e2d1318c Added tutorial outline. diff -r 3f21f7e57e9d -r 7de34186254e project/templates/about/tutorial.html --- a/project/templates/about/tutorial.html Wed Dec 08 00:39:01 2010 +0530 +++ b/project/templates/about/tutorial.html Wed Dec 08 23:04:29 2010 +0530 @@ -45,85 +45,345 @@

Coverage

This is a rough outline of the topics to be covered in the -tutorials. The exact schedule of the tutorials will be put up in a -short while. -

Day 1

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+Sage (2 hr 30 min) +
- +getting started with Sage notebook (45 min) (Prabhu) +
  - +introduction +
  - +starting the server +
  - +the UI +
  - +getting help +
  - +overview of what's available in Sage
    - -Sage +basic calculus +
    - +basic algebra +
    - +basic plotting +
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- +symbolics & calculus & basic plotting(1 hr) (Bhanu) +
  - +parametric plots +
    - +2D +
    - +3D +
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- +linear algebra (30 min) (Nishanth) +
- +Misc (15 min) +
  - +QA +
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+Basic Plotting (using pylab) (1 hr 30 min) (Fernando)
- -basic usage +getting started with ipython +
- +using the plot command interactively +
- +embellishing a plot +
- +saving plots +
- +multiple plots +
- +saving to scripts and running them (from ipython) +
- +running the same thing in sage notebook +
  - +change language to python, import pylab, simple plot, savefig +
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+Plotting Experimental Data (1 hr) (punch) +
- +plotting points with lists +
  - +basic lists +
    - +accessing first and last element and negative indexing (no striding)
    - -symbolic computing +appending +
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- +loading data from files using loadtxt
- -numeric computing +for loop with lists +
  - +pendulum example +
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Day 2

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-basic plotting +Arrays (1 hr) (Perry) +
- +make a reference to earlier example of squaring as motivation +and say that there are loads of other goodies +
  - +give examples like find sin of a list of million elements +using for and then use sin(an_array)
- -Basic Scientific Computing with Python covering the following +getting started with arrays +
- +accessing parts of arrays
  - -ipython +1d slicing +
  - +1d striding +
  - +2d slicing +
  - +2d striding +
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- +lena example of above +
- +element wise operations +
- +matrices +
  - +one slide ( det, inv, norm ) +
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-pylab +Scipy (1 hr 30 min) (John) +
- +least square fit +
- +Roots +
  - +introduce basic functions +
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- +Solving Equations
- -numpy +ODE +
  - +reinforce function +
- -scipy +FFT +
-basic use of Mayavi +Python Language: Basics (1 hr) (Asokan) +
- +basic data-types +
  - +strings
- -Basic Python +Operators +
- +I/O +
- +conditionals +
- +loops
  - -data-types +while (Fibonacci)
  - -conditionals & looping +range, for (exercises)
  - -functions & modules +
-Advanced topics +Python Language: Data structures (1hr 30 min) (Asokan)
- -Cython +manipulating lists
- -More Ipython +dictionaries
- -More Mayavi +manipulating strings
- -More matplotlib +getting started with tuples
- -More Sage? - +sets +
- +spend time on examples

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Day 3

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+Python Language: Advanced (1 hr) (Madhu) +
- +functions +
  - +defining functions +
  - +keyword arguments and default arguments +
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- +using python modules +
- +writing re-usable python scripts +
- +PEP-8? +
  - +download PEP 8 and keep it handy +
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+More Numpy? (broadcasting, indexing tricks…) (1hr) (Stefan) +
+Mayavi (1 hr) (Prabhu) +
+Cython (1 hr) (Stefan) +
+Version Control (Hg/Git) (15 min) (Madhu) +
+ReST & Scipy/Numpy Documentation Editor (45 min) (Stefan) +

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Any participants using their own laptops should have the required software installed on their machines, before coming to the venue of the tutorials. The installation instructions are available here.