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+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+% Tutorial slides on Python.
+%
+% Author: Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu at aero.iitb.ac.in>
+% Copyright (c) 2005-2008, Prabhu Ramachandran
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+\documentclass[14pt,compress]{beamer}
+%\documentclass[draft]{beamer}
+%\documentclass[compress,handout]{beamer}
+%\usepackage{pgfpages} 
+%\pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[a4paper,border shrink=5mm]
+
+% Modified from: generic-ornate-15min-45min.de.tex
+\mode<presentation>
+{
+  \usetheme{Warsaw}
+  \useoutertheme{split}
+  \setbeamercovered{transparent}
+}
+
+\usepackage[english]{babel}
+\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
+%\usepackage{times}
+\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
+
+% Taken from Fernando's slides.
+\usepackage{ae,aecompl}
+\usepackage{mathpazo,courier,euler}
+\usepackage[scaled=.95]{helvet}
+
+\definecolor{darkgreen}{rgb}{0,0.5,0}
+
+\usepackage{listings}
+\lstset{language=Python,
+    basicstyle=\ttfamily\bfseries,
+    commentstyle=\color{red}\itshape,
+  stringstyle=\color{darkgreen},
+  showstringspaces=false,
+  keywordstyle=\color{blue}\bfseries}
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+% Macros
+\setbeamercolor{emphbar}{bg=blue!20, fg=black}
+\newcommand{\emphbar}[1]
+{\begin{beamercolorbox}[rounded=true]{emphbar} 
+      {#1}
+ \end{beamercolorbox}
+}
+\newcounter{time}
+\setcounter{time}{0}
+\newcommand{\inctime}[1]{\addtocounter{time}{#1}{\tiny \thetime\ m}}
+
+\newcommand{\typ}[1]{\texttt{#1}}
+
+\newcommand{\kwrd}[1]{ \texttt{\textbf{\color{blue}{#1}}}  }
+
+%%% This is from Fernando's setup.
+% \usepackage{color}
+% \definecolor{orange}{cmyk}{0,0.4,0.8,0.2}
+% % Use and configure listings package for nicely formatted code
+% \usepackage{listings}
+% \lstset{
+%    language=Python,
+%    basicstyle=\small\ttfamily,
+%    commentstyle=\ttfamily\color{blue},
+%    stringstyle=\ttfamily\color{orange},
+%    showstringspaces=false,
+%    breaklines=true,
+%    postbreak = \space\dots
+% }
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+% Title page
+\title[Basic Python]{Python,\\a great programming toolkit:\\
+numerics and plotting}
+
+\author[Asokan \& Prabhu] {Asokan Pichai\\Prabhu Ramachandran}
+
+\institute[IIT Bombay] {Department of Aerospace Engineering\\IIT Bombay}
+\date[] {26, July 2009}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%\pgfdeclareimage[height=0.75cm]{iitmlogo}{iitmlogo}
+%\logo{\pgfuseimage{iitmlogo}}
+
+
+%% Delete this, if you do not want the table of contents to pop up at
+%% the beginning of each subsection:
+\AtBeginSubsection[]
+{
+  \begin{frame}<beamer>
+    \frametitle{Outline}
+    \tableofcontents[currentsection,currentsubsection]
+  \end{frame}
+}
+
+\AtBeginSection[]
+{
+  \begin{frame}<beamer>
+    \frametitle{Outline}
+    \tableofcontents[currentsection,currentsubsection]
+  \end{frame}
+}
+
+% If you wish to uncover everything in a step-wise fashion, uncomment
+% the following command: 
+%\beamerdefaultoverlayspecification{<+->}
+
+%\includeonlyframes{current,current1,current2,current3,current4,current5,current6}
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+% DOCUMENT STARTS
+\begin{document}
+
+\begin{frame}
+  \frametitle{Outline}
+  \tableofcontents
+\end{frame}
+\section{Pythonicity}
+\begin{frame}[fragile]
+    \frametitle{The Zen of Python}
+
+Try this!
+
+\begin{lstlisting}
+>>> import this
+\end{lstlisting}
+
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+    {Style Guide}
+    
+    Read PEP8
+
+    \url{http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/}
+
+    \inctime{10}
+\end{frame}
+\section{More Python Machinery}
+\subsection{Objects}
+\begin{frame}{Objects in Python}
+    \begin{itemize}
+        \item What is an Object? (Types and classes)
+        \item identity
+        \item type
+        \item method
+      \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}[fragile]
+  \frametitle{Why are they useful?}
+  \small
+  \begin{lstlisting}
+for element in (1, 2, 3):
+    print element
+for key in {'one':1, 'two':2}:
+    print key
+for char in "123":
+    print char
+for line in open("myfile.txt"):
+    print line
+for line in urllib2.urlopen('http://site.com'):
+    print line
+  \end{lstlisting}
+\end{frame}
+\begin{frame}{And the winner is \ldots OBJECTS!}
+  All objects providing a similar inteface can be used the same way.\\
+  Functions (and others) are first-class objects. Can be passed to and returned from functions.
+  \inctime{10}
+\end{frame}
+\subsection{Dictionary}
+\begin{frame}{Dictionary}
+  \begin{itemize}
+    \item aka associative arrays, key-value pairs, hashmaps, hashtables \ldots    
+    \item \typ{ d = \{ ``Hitchhiker's guide'' : 42, ``Terminator'' : ``I'll be back''\}}
+    \item lists and tuples index: 0 \ldots n
+    \item dictionaries index using strings
+    \item aka key-value pairs
+    \item what can be keys?
+  \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+    
+\begin{frame}{Dict \ldots }
+  \begin{itemize}
+    \item \alert{Unordered}
+      \begin{block}{Standard usage}
+        for key in dict:\\
+            <use> dict[key] \# => value
+      \end{block}
+    \item \typ{d.keys()} returns a list
+    \item can we have duplicate keys?
+  \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+\begin{frame} {Problem Set 2.1}
+  \begin{description}
+\item[2.1.1] You are given date strings of the form ``29, Jul 2009'', or ``4 January 2008''. In other words a number a string and another number, with a comma sometimes separating the items.Write a function that takes such a string and returns a tuple (yyyy, mm, dd) where all three elements are ints.
+    \item[2.1.2] Count word frequencies in a file.
+    \item[2.1.3] Find the most used Python keywords in your Python code (import keyword).
+\end{description}
+
+\inctime{20}
+\end{frame}
+
+\subsection{Set}
+\begin{frame}[fragile]
+  \frametitle{Set}
+    \begin{itemize}
+      \item Simplest container, mutable
+      \item No ordering, no duplicates
+      \item usual suspects: union, intersection, subset \ldots
+      \item >, >=, <, <=, in, \ldots
+    \end{itemize}
+    \begin{lstlisting}
+f10 = set([1,2,3,5,8])
+p10 = set([2,3,5,7])
+f10|p10, f10&p10
+f10-p10, p10-f10, f10^p10
+set([2,3]) < p10, set([2,3]) <= p10
+2 in p10, 4 in p10
+len(f10)
+\end{lstlisting}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+  \frametitle{Problem set 2.2}
+  \begin{description}
+    \item[2.2.1] Given a dictionary of the names of students and their marks, identify how many duplicate marks are there? and what are these?
+    \item[2.2.2] Given a string of the form ``4-7, 9, 12, 15'' find the numbers missing in this list for a given range.
+\end{description}
+\inctime{15}
+\end{frame}
+
+\subsection{Functions Reloaded!}
+\begin{frame}[fragile]
+    \frametitle{Advanced functions}
+    \begin{itemize}
+        \item default args
+        \item varargs
+        \item keyword args
+        \item scope
+        \item \typ{global}
+      \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}[fragile]
+  \frametitle{Functions: default arguments}
+  \begin{lstlisting}
+def ask_ok(prompt, retries=4, complaint='Yes or no!'):
+    while True:
+        ok = raw_input(prompt)
+        if ok in ('y', 'ye', 'yes'): 
+            return True
+        if ok in ('n', 'no', 'nop', 'nope'): 
+            return False
+        retries = retries - 1
+        if retries < 0: 
+            raise IOError, 'bad user'
+        print complaint
+  \end{lstlisting}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}[fragile]
+  \frametitle{Functions: keyword arguments}
+  \small
+  \begin{lstlisting}
+def parrot(voltage, state='a stiff', 
+           action='voom', type='Royal Blue'):
+    print "-- This parrot wouldn't", action,
+    print "if you supply", voltage, "Volts."
+    print "-- Lovely plumage, the", type
+    print "-- It's", state, "!"
+
+parrot(1000)
+parrot(action = 'VOOOOOM', voltage = 1000000)
+parrot('a thousand', state = 'pushing up the daisies')
+parrot('a million', 'bereft of life', 'jump')
+\end{lstlisting}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}[fragile]
+  \frametitle{Functions: arbitrary argument lists}
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item Arbitrary number of arguments using \verb+*args+ or
+    \verb+*whatever+
+  \item Keyword arguments using \verb+**kw+
+  \item Given a tuple/dict how do you call a function?
+    \begin{itemize}
+    \item Using argument unpacking
+    \item For positional arguments: \verb+foo(*[5, 10])+
+    \item For keyword args: \verb+foo(**{'a':5, 'b':10})+
+    \end{itemize}
+  \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+  \begin{frame}[fragile]
+\begin{lstlisting}
+def foo(a=10, b=100):
+    print a, b
+def func(*args, **keyword):
+    print args, keyword
+# Unpacking:
+args = [5, 10]
+foo(*args)
+kw = {'a':5, 'b':10}
+foo(**kw)
+\end{lstlisting}
+    \inctime{15} 
+\end{frame}
+
+\subsection{Functional programming}
+\begin{frame}[fragile]
+    \frametitle{Functional programming}
+What is the basic idea?\\
+Why is it interesting?\\
+\typ{map, reduce, filter}\\
+list comprehension\\
+generators
+    \inctime{10} 
+\end{frame}
+\end{document}
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%




