PrincetonPy's one-day workshop, Introduction to Python for Scientific Computing.
The material comes as a series of IPython Notebooks :
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- Introduction and Setup - a brief introduction to what Python is about, and some recommendations for what to install.
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- Basic Python - very quick intro to variables, control structure, lists, dictionaries, functions, IO; to get you on your feet.
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- Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, Matplotlib - the Scipy Stack which forms the basis of scientific coding in Python.
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- Demos - lmfit, scikit-learn, scikit-image, pandas, pickle, pymc; some packages I use for cool scientific work.
Exercises occur throughout, with tips and solutions given. For all questions, please get in touch either on our forums or on Twitter at @PrincetonPy.