Python Course for Geoscientists

Session

Day 1

21 Mar 2023, 09:00

6. Welcome

21/03/2023, 09:00

A short welcome to the participants and speakers.

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

21/03/2023, 09:10

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

8. What is Python – short intro

21/03/2023, 09:30

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

9. Introduction to Linux system and setting up work environment

21/03/2023, 10:00

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

26. Installation

21/03/2023, 11:15

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

10. Installation - Questions/Answers

21/03/2023, 13:15

12. Jupyter notebooks, connecting to Levante

21/03/2023, 13:30

• Jupyter hub
• Jupyter lab

11. Syntax

21/03/2023, 14:30

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

27. Data types

21/03/2023, 15:00

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

28. Strings

21/03/2023, 15:15

• formatting
• string functions