gds15 — Week 1 - Tools

Week 1 - Tools

Notebook

Additional materials

If you want to explore further by yourself the contents presented in this tutorial, the following pointers are good places to start:

[Video] “Python as Super Glue for the Modern Scientific Workflow”, keynote speech by Prof. Joshua Bloom from UC Berkley about how Python is used in Astronomy research.
Gallery of interesting notebooks: a wealth of examples of Jupyter (formerly called IPython) notebooks.
(Downey, 2012): very good general introduction to Python as a programming language and to the algorithmic way of thinking. The book is freely available in HTML and PDF.

References

Downey, A. (2012). Think Python - How to Think Like a Computer Scientist. Green Tea Pres.