Computer Aided Calculations

Lessons🔗

This page contains a tutorial on scientific computing in Python 3.

The tutorial is used during classes of “Computer Aided Calculations”.

1. Why python?
2. Python shell as a calculator
3. Rational numbers
4. Lists, tuples, and dictionaries
5. Iterable objects
6. SymPy

Additional materials and bibliography🔗

• Gaël Varoquaux, et al. Scipy Lecture Notes
• Jake VanderPlas Python Data Science Handbook
• Robert Johansson Introduction to Scientific Computing in Python
• Hans Petter Langtangen A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python
• Hans Fangohr Introduction to Python for Computational Science and Engineering (A beginner’s guide) book and slides
• Andrew Ribeiro Workshop: Scientific Computing in Python
• Karlijn Willems Pandas Tutorial: DataFrames in Python
• Selva Prabhakaran Numpy Tutorial Part 1 – Introduction to Arrays, Part 2 – Vital Functions for Data Analysis