Python+Beverages

Join us at 4pm every other Friday (see schedule below) for an hour of Python discussion, with beer, tea, and snacks.

We will try to adhere to the following (rough) schedule each week:

• 15-20 minute demonstration on an important concept (e.g. plotting, data analysis, curve fitting, MCMC, etc.)
• 10-15 minute "talk" from someone about how they use Python in their research
• 20 minutes to discuss problems and questions!

Of course, if people have ideas, questions, or things they really want to talk about we can change things around!

The first meeting will be this Friday, April 13th, at 4pm in the Library!

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I've created a ​GitHub project for our weekly meetings. I can explain how Git works, but it's basically just a version control system with nice web hosting. The idea is to create a new folder for each session, and I'll put example code, tutorials, and any other files that might be useful into this repository so anyone can check it out. I'll keep our schedule on this page, as well as some information and help for installing Python and useful packages, but everything else will be done through github.

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Installing Python

• The Enthought way:
  • One of the easiest ways I've encountered for installing Python + a whole bunch of useful packages is through the Enthought distribution. This is cross-platform (Mac, Linux, Windows), and is kept pretty well up to date. I recommend downloading the 64-bit version of the distribution, but to get a link to this download you have to register with them and prove that you're a student. You can do that through ​this link.
• The yt way
  • Cameron? Matt? Bueller?

Schedule:

April 13	Meeting 0
April 20	Meeting 1: Intro to Python
April 27	Meeting 2: Debugging