--- a/getting-started-with-arrays/slides.org Sun Nov 07 01:28:29 2010 +0530
+++ b/getting-started-with-arrays/slides.org Sun Nov 07 15:43:46 2010 +0530
@@ -44,9 +44,12 @@
* Creating Arrays
- Creating a 1-dimensional array
: In []: a1 = array([1, 2, 3, 4])
+ ~[1, 2, 3, 4]~ is a list.
+* Creating two-dimensional array
- Creating a 2-dimensional array
: In []: a2 = array([[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8]])
- - Easier method of creating array with consecutive elements.
+ here we convert a list of lists to an array making a 2-d array.
+ - Using ~arange()~ function
: In []: ar = arange(1,9)
* ~reshape()~ method
- To reshape an array
@@ -67,11 +70,11 @@
* ~.shape~ of array
- ~.shape~
To find the shape of the array
- : In []: a1.shape
+ : In []: a2.shape
- ~.shape~
returns a tuple of shape
* Exercise 2
- Find out the shape of the other arrays(a2, a3, ar) that we have created.
+ Find out the shape of the other arrays(a1, a3, ar) that we have created.
* Homogeneous data
- All elements in array should be of same type
: In []: a4 = array([1,2,3,'a string'])