ARC/WestGrid Research Computing Summer School

June 20, 2017

Jupyter Notebooks
- Cells, modes, and keyboard shortcuts
- Markdown: text, links, lists, images and tables
- LaTeX: mathematical notation
  - Exercise: Describe your research
Basic Python
- Datatypes and built-in functions
  - Exercise: Special values of the Riemann zeta function
- Logic, loops and functions
  - Exercise: Collatz conjecture
- Packages and modules
Scientific Computing in Python
- NumPy and Matplotlib
  - Exercise: Parametric equations
- SciPy
  - Exercise: Logistic equation
  - Exercise: Euler's three-body problem
- pandas
  - Exercise: Vancouver Police data