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ISC-3313 Introduction to Scientific Computing (Summer 2019)

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Course Information

Time: Tu/Th 11:00am - 12:15pm

Location: DSL 0152

Dates: May 14 – Aug 3 (12 weeks)

Instructor Information

Name: Eitan Lees

Email: [email protected]

Office Hours: by appointment (please email)

Course Outline

We will cover the basics of programming with python as well as some more advanced features. The topics will be broken up into four modules as such:

  • Python Fundamentals

    • Introduction, Installation, and Basic Syntax
    • Variables, Arithmetic and Boolean Operations, Scalar and Structured Data Types
    • Conditional Flow and Loops, Defining Functions
  • Beyond Base Python

    • Creating/Installing Modules, Docstrings, Conda vs. Pip
    • Numpy, Ndarrays, Ufuncs, Aggregations
    • Matplotlib, Point/Line Plots, Contour/3D Plots, Subplots/Customization
  • Advanced Python

    • Classes, Attributes, Methods, Polymorphism
    • List Comprehension, Flexible Arguments, Map/Filter
    • File IO, Command Line Arguments, OS and Sys modules
  • Scientific Python

    • Scipy, Linalg, Stats, Interpolate, Optimize
    • Pandas, DataFrames, Time Series
    • Machine Learning, Scikit-Learn, Student Presentations

In addition to the outline above, we will have select lectures on specific math topics, including but not limited to:

  • Ordinary Differential Equations
  • Numerical Calculus
  • Random Numbers/Monte Carlo

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