Python Course for Geoscientists

Session

Day 1

Mar 21, 2022, 9:00 AM

6. Welcome

3/21/22, 9:00 AM

A short welcome to the participants and speakers.

7. Hardware for Python: Difference between a supercomputer and your mobile phone

3/21/22, 9:10 AM

• what is a node, cpu
• Historical development
• Architecture

8. What is Python – short intro

3/21/22, 9:30 AM

• Difference between programming language and Python
• Assembler, compiler, interpreter

9. Introduction to Linux system and setting up work environment

3/21/22, 10:00 AM

• terminal
• via WSL
• command line and shell: (basics to transfer/run files and data in/out Mistral)
• editor

26. Installation

3/21/22, 11:15 AM

• conda
• python
• modules/environments
• envkernel conda --name=kernel-name --user $conda-env
• python-related package management
• testing installation and libraries

10. Installation - Questions/Answers

3/21/22, 1:15 PM

12. Jupyter notebooks, connecting to Mistral

3/21/22, 1:30 PM

• Jupyter lab
• Jupyter hub
• Jupyter lab

11. Syntax

3/21/22, 2:30 PM

• case-sensitive
• print
• indentation and code blocks
• line continuation
• comments

27. Data types

3/21/22, 3:00 PM

• boolean
• integer
• floating-point
• complex
• conversion between types
• None

28. Strings

3/21/22, 3:15 PM

• formatting
• string functions