CSCI P-14110 Introduction to Programming, Computational Science, and Data Visualization
This is the course website CSCI P-14110
Lesson 1 - Introduction
This week, we will go over the general structure of this course, our motivations and tools.
We will also install a lot of stuff!
For reference, I will use some Unix-like commands. We’ll only cover a few, but just in case you want to know more, here is a Windows-to-Unix conversion cheetsheet:
Download the version appropriate for your operating system (Mac, Windows, Linux) - make sure you select Python 3 (not 2)
Click on the .exe or package file that gets downloaded and run the install program
For Windows - search for Jupyter Notebook, click and run; For Mac - in Applications folder, click on Anaconda Navigator, click on the Jupyter Notebook link once the Navigator opens
Open a new notebook by clicking “New” in the upper left corner and selecting Python 3
Test your installation with the following commands:
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([5,6])
Make sure to press SHIFT+ENTER after each line. You should see a simple line plot appear.
Link is on youtube here. Note: play this back at as high resolution as possible.
Windows 10
Movie of this process:
Link is on youtube here. Note: play this back at as high resolution as possible.
Resources
Below are some extra resources to learn about the topics we discussed. Some will be required for the HW and will be listed on the Canvas webpage, while others are left up to you!