Weekly notes

• Week 1: Jan. 6

  • Went over laptop installs

  • Started lab 1

• Week 2: Jan. 13

  • Introduced git

  • Go over common command line commands

  • Look at pyman/chap2_jupyter.ipynb and Lab 2

• Week 3: Jan. 20

  • Finish lab 2

  • Start Lab 3 - Linear algebra

  • Demonstration: moving functions into modules

• Week 4: Jan. 27

  • Finish lab 3, start lab 4

  • Demonstration: editing with visual studio code

• Week 5: Feb.3

  • lab 4

  • Demonstration: named tuple

• Week 6: Feb.10

  • lab 5

  • Demonstration: 1) eigenvectors and linear odes 2) object oriented programming

    • Links

      • Linear ode review

      • Link between eigenvectors and linear odes

      • stability theory for odes

      • An example of the oop language wars

    • installing new packages

      • make sure they come from the conda-forge channel:

        conda install -c conda-forge pandas
        

      • to make conda-forge your default channel:

        conda config --prepend channels conda-forge
        

• Week 7: Feb. 24

  • Numba demonstration notebook

  • Some links on object oriented programming:

    • Corey Schafer Python tutorials (scroll down for object oriented programming)

    • Side by side comparison of program design in Python and Julia