Outline and plan for the SciPy2010 tutorial

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Outline of sessions

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Standard allocation is about 1 hour per session which fits perfectly

with our requirements.  However, the level of the fossee slides is

rather basic and we need to add more material to it or adjust the

timings suitably.  What we will do is add rough timelines to each session

as we go over the slides and also add more material as we see fit.

    - Checklist

    - Starting up IPython

    - Odds and ends

    - Introductory Plotting

    - Review problem

    - Command history

    - Python scripts.

    - Plotting Points

    - Lists

    - Simple pendulum

    - Strings

    - Summary

    - Basic statistical calculations

    - Handling larger data (sslc data)

    - Basic matrices.

    - Elementary image processing.

    - Add some image processing stuff here.

    - More matrices -- determinant, inverse.

    - Least squares fit for data.

    - Exercises.

    - Solving systems of equations.

    - Finding roots.

      - Introducing functions.

    - Solving ODEs.

    - Data types, numbers, booleans, strings.

    - operators

    - simple i/o

    - basic control flow:  if/elif/else

    - Control flow (while, for, range etc.)

    - exercises.

    - Lists, tuples, dicts, sets.

    - Functions.

    - More on functions.

    - Modules.

    - Objects.

    - tests

    - coding style.

    - Debugging.

    - Exercises.

    - 3D plotting with Mayavi??