Universität Wien

980043 TS Introduction to Programming in Python 3 for Physicists (2019W)

0.00 ECTS (1.50 SWS), DoktorandInnenzentrum-Kursangebot
VDS-PH

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.

Details

max. 15 participants
Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes

24 and 29 January 2020, 9 am till 4 pm
Location: Room 3114 (Faculty of Physics, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna, 1st floor)


Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Proposed topics for day 1

• Installation and available distributions
• 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.

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list


Association in the course directory

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