Initial checkin of file with details of the plan for the tutorial.
Outline and plan for the SciPy2010 tutorial
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Outline of sessions
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- Session 1:
- Checklist
- Starting up IPython
- Odds and ends
- Introductory Plotting
- Review problem
- Command history
- Python scripts.
- Session 2:
- Plotting Points
- Lists
- Simple pendulum
- Strings
- Summary
- Session 3:
- Basic statistical calculations
- Handling larger data (sslc data)
- Parsing data files
- Dictionaries
- Pie chart
- Arrays for efficiency
- Session 4:
- Basic matrices.
- Elementary image processing.
- Add some image processing stuff here.
- More matrices -- determinant, inverse.
- Least squares fit for data.
- Session 5:
- Exercises.
- Session 6:
- Solving systems of equations.
- Finding roots.
- Introducing functions.
- Solving ODEs.
- Session 7 (Python language basics.):
- Data types, numbers, booleans, strings.
- operators
- simple i/o
- basic control flow: if/elif/else
- Session 8:
- Control flow (while, for, range etc.)
- exercises.
- Lists, tuples, dicts, sets.
- Functions.
- Session 9:
- More on functions.
- Modules.
- Objects.
- Session 10 (Python development):
- tests
- coding style.
- Debugging.
- Session 11:
- Exercises.
- Session 12:
- 3D plotting with Mayavi??