980043 TS Introduction to Programming in Python 3 for Physicists (2019W)
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Main target group for this workshop are fellows of the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics. In case the workshop is overbooked, fellows are ranked first.
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max. 15 participants
Language: English
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24 and 29 January 2020, 9 am till 4 pm
Location: Room 3114 (Faculty of Physics, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna, 1st floor)
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Last modified: We 21.04.2021 13:41
• Python's data types
• Methods vs. functions
• Getting help
• Control Flow: conditional execution and loops, Python's syntactic specialities
• Managing additional packages using command line tools (pip and/or conda)
• Adding scientific packages.
• Introduction to pandas (powerful data analysis library), numpy (array objects, linear
algebra)Proposed topics for day 2• Advanced Data Analysis (statistics, common probability distribution functions)
• Visualisation (seaborn, matplotlib)
• Discussion of the self-study examples from day 1
• Advanced libraries.