Python Course for Geoscientists

Name: Python Course for Geoscientists
Start: 2024-10-08T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-10-11T17:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

8 Oct 2024, 09:00 → 11 Oct 2024, 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Angelika Heil (DKRZ), Jannek Squar (Uni HH), Karin Meier-Fleischer (DKRZ), Marco Kulüke (DKRZ), Nils-Arne Dreier (DKRZ), Ralf Mueller (DKRZ)

Description

Target group: beginner

In today's world, there is usually no way around the Python programming language in the geosciences. However, learning Python on your own is associated with many difficulties and leads only to unsatisfactory results, which is why this course was developed especially for beginners.

We only offer a limited number of course seats to ensure there is enough time to help with problems.

This workshop will take place via Zoom videoconference.

In advance, due to high demand, we will not be able to provide everyone registered to attend this course, but the next course will take place in spring next year ;).

This course is for beginners!

We're sorry, but the registration is now closed. The course is fully booked.

The next course will take place in spring next year.

Contact

meier-fleischer@dkrz.de

Tuesday, 8 October
- Day 1: Morning sessions
  - 1
    
    Welcome
    
    A short welcome to the participants and speakers.
  - 2
    Difference between a supercomputer and a mobile phone
    
    what is a node, cpu
    
    historical development
    
    architecture
  - 3
    What is Python – short intro
    
    difference between programming language and Python
    
    assembler, compiler, interpreter
  - 4
    Jupyter Notebooks
    
    connecting to Levante with Jupyterhub
    
    Jupyterlab
    
    Installation
  - 11:00
    
    Break
  - 5
    Introduction to Linux
    
    terminal
    
    via WSL
    
    command line and shell
    
    editor
- 12:30
  
  Lunch Break
- Day 1: Afternoon sessions
  - 6
    Syntax
    
    case-sensitive
    
    print
    
    indentation and code blocks
    
    line continuation
    
    comments
  - 7
    Data types
    
    boolean
    
    integer
    
    floating-point
    
    complex
    
    conversion between types
    
    None
  - 8
    Strings
    
    formatting
    
    string functions
  - 9
    
    Lists, tuples, and sets
  - 10
    Dictionaries
    
    creation
    
    access
  - 15:15
    
    Questions/Answers // End
Wednesday, 9 October
- Day 2: Morning sessions
  - 11
    
    Warmup about content of Day 1
  - 12
    Copy objects
    
    shallow
    
    deep
  - 13
    
    Basic operators and math functions
  - 14
    
    Conditions
  - 15
    Loops
    
    for
    
    while
  - 10:45
    
    Break
  - 16
    List comprehensions
    
    nested
  - 17
    
    Functions
  - 18
    File I/O
    
    open
    
    close
    
    read
    
    write
    
    csv reader
- 12:45
  
  Lunch break
- Day 2: Afternoon sessions
  - 19
    Exceptions, error handling
    
    try and except
    
    logging
    
    debugging
  - 20
    
    Python in Action (GLOBAGRIM)
  - 15:30
    
    Questions/Answers // End
Thursday, 10 October
- Day 3: Morning sessions
  - 21
    
    Warmup about content of Day 2
  - 22
    
    Numpy
  - 10:45
    
    Break
  - 23
    Xarray I
    
    DataArray
    
    Dataset
    
    open_dataset / open_mfdataset
- 12:30
  
  Lunch break
- Day 3: Afternoon sessions
  - 24
    Visualization I
    
    Matplotlib
  - 15:30
    
    Questions/Answers // End
Friday, 11 October
- Day 4: Morning sessions
  - 25
    
    Warmup about content of Day 3
  - 26
    Visualization II
    
    Cartopy
  - 27
    
    Xarray II
  - 11:15
    
    Break
  - 28
    
    Xarray III
- Day 4: Afternoon sessions
  - 29
    
    Feedback
  - 30
    
    Questions and answers
- 15:00
  
  The End