Difference between revisions of "Python for Scientific programming"
From Gridkaschool
Line 22: | Line 22: | ||
should pop up a picture of the Mandelbrot set. |
should pop up a picture of the Mandelbrot set. |
||
+ | |||
+ | ==[[Course Material]]== |
||
+ | |||
+ | There are three ways of accessing the course material: |
||
+ | |||
+ | * [http://cern.ch/jacek/courses/py-for-sci-in-6-hours/course.html On-line] |
||
+ | * Download this tarball: [[Media:py-for-sci-in-6-hours.tgz]] |
||
+ | * During the course, on the school-provided machines, at <tt>/home/tutors/generowicz/course</tt> |
Revision as of 18:42, 28 August 2012
Technical specification/requirements
To take part in this course you will need the following software packages
- Python (>= 2.6 > 3.0)
- IPython (>= 0.12)
- Numpy
- Matplotlib
- Cython (>= 0.15)
GridKa School has provided machines with the above software pre-installed, to which you can log in remotely, but if you install the required packages on your laptop you will be more comfortable working in a familiar environment.
Testing your installation
Download Media:installation-test.tgz. Then
tar zxvf installation-test.tgz cd installation-test python setup.py build_ext --inplace ipython --pylab -i mandelbrot.py
should pop up a picture of the Mandelbrot set.
Course Material
There are three ways of accessing the course material:
- On-line
- Download this tarball: Media:py-for-sci-in-6-hours.tgz
- During the course, on the school-provided machines, at /home/tutors/generowicz/course