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.

  - Session 1 (Mon 8:00): (PR/KD)

    - Checklist

    - Starting up IPython

    - Odds and ends

    - Introductory Plotting

    - Review problem

    - Command history

    - Python scripts.

  - Session 2 (Mon 9:00): (KD)

    - Plotting Points

    - Lists

    - Simple pendulum

    - Strings

    - Summary

  - Session 3 (Mon 10:20): (CB)

    - Basic statistical calculations

    - Handling larger data (sslc data)

      - Parsing data files

      - Dictionaries

      - Pie chart

      - Arrays for efficiency

  - Session 4 (Mon 11:20): (PR)

    - Basic matrices.

    - Elementary image processing.

    - Add some image processing stuff here.

    - More matrices -- determinant, inverse.

    - Least squares fit for data.

  - Quiz 1 (Mon 13:40 -- 13:55) (KD)

  - Session 5 (Mon 13:55): (KD)

    - Exercises.

    - Solving systems of equations.

    - Finding roots.

      - Introducing functions.

    - Solving ODEs.

    - Random numbers.

    - FFTs and basic signal processing.

  - Quiz 2 (16:00 -- 16:15) (KD)

  - Session 7 (Mon 16:15) (Python language basics.): (KD)

    - *day2 session1 material*

    - Data types, numbers, booleans, strings.

    - operators

    - simple i/o

    - basic control flow:  if/elif/else

    - *day2 session2 material*

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

    - exercises.

    - Lists, tuples, dicts, sets.

    - Functions.

  - Session 9 (Tue 8:00): (CB)

    - *day2 session3 material*

    - More on functions.

    - Modules.

    - Objects.

  - Session 10 (Tue 9:00) (Python development): (CB)

    - *day2 session4 material*

    - tests

    - coding style.

    - Debugging.

  - Quiz 3 (Tue: 10:20 -- 10:35) (KD)

  - Session 11 (Tue 10:20): (PR + CB)

    - *day2 session5 material*

    - Exercises.

  - Session 12 (Tue 11:20): (PR)

    - *day2 session6 material*

    - 3D plotting with Mayavi