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+Tutorials
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+Intended audience
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+College and University Teachers/Professors/Lecturers from any Engineering or Science domain, and Engineering students who would like to use Python for their basic computing and plotting needs.
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+Prerequisites
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+Participants should be comfortable computer users and be familiar with programming constructs such as loops, conditionals.
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+Familiarity with programming editors– scite, notepad++, vi, emacs- will be a plus.
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+Familiarity with using the commandline will be another plus.
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+Objectives
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+At the end of the program the participants will have a good understanding of the Python language, and selected libraries.
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+They will be able to write good modular procedural code and use objects.
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+They will get a overview of the other major topics, features and libraries and be able to learn these on their own if required.
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+They will be able to generate 2-D plots using NumPy and Matplotlib, and 3-D plots using MayaVi2.
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+They will be able to incorporate and adapt Python in their lessons
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+Coverage
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+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.
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+Sage
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+basic usage
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+symbolic computing
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+numeric computing
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+basic plotting
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+Basic Scientific Computing with Python covering the following
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+ipython
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+pylab
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+numpy
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+scipy
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+basic use of Mayavi
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+Basic Python
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+data-types
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+conditionals & looping
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+functions & modules
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+Advanced topics
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+Cython
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+More Ipython
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+More Mayavi
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+More matplotlib
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+More Sage?
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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.
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+Methodology
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+Completely hands on, exploratory mode with minimal lectures introducing essential concepts and techniques.
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+Typically we will have short 15 - 20 minute lectures, followed by series of graduated problems. The participants will solve them exploring the documentation to do so and the solutions will be discussed.
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+We shall be conducting quizzes during the course of the workshop to evaluate the degree to which the objectives have been accomplished.
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+Laptops can be brought by participants, and additional laptops/computers can be provided for use for those required. Charging points will be available.
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+As far as installations go, you would require the following:
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+For Debian/ Ubuntu and the like:
+(a) IPython
+(b) Python doc
+(c) the Python Profiler
+(d) Scipy/Numpy
+(e) Matplotlib
+(f) Mayavi2
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+For Windows XP (x86), Windows Vista (x86), Mac OS X 10.4+ (x86), RedHat 3 (x86, amd64), RedHat 4 (x86, amd64), RedHat 5 (x86, amd64), and Solaris 10 (x86, amd64) :
+(a) get the EPD (http://www.enthought.com/products/epd.php) bundle and you'll have everything you need! This is available for free for those in academia and others can utilize the free 30 day trial version for now.
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+In any case, we will be providing live DVDs containing all the required installations and some additional tools on site. The iso can also be downloaded from the fossee.in site (http://fossee.in/download#DVDs).
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+{% endblock content %}