ollie-bell/acse_python_intro

ACSE 1 (2019/20)

Modern Programming Methods

Module coordinator and teaching staff

• Gerard Gorman (email)
• James Percival (email)

Learning outcomes:

On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

1. Produce software for sustainable and reproducible research.
2. Carry out test-driven software development and continuous integration.
3. Develop software using a version control system.
4. Create software using the Python programming language.

Lecture plan:

Date	Lecture	Lecture
2019-10-03 09:00-12:00 Thu	Bootstrapping; Python 1	./lectures/Lecture 1
2019-10-03 13:00-17:00 Thu	Python 2	./lectures/Lecture 2
2019-10-04 09:00-12:00 Fri	Python 3	./lectures/Lecture 3
2019-10-04 13:00-17:00 Fri	Python 4	./lectures/Lecture 4
2019-10-07 09:00-12:00 Mon	SciPy 1	./lectures/Lecture 5
2019-10-07 14:00-17:00 Mon	SciPy 2	./lectures/Lecture 5
2019-10-08 09:00-12:00 Tue	Pandas 1	./lectures/Lecture 6
2019-10-08 14:00-17:00 Tue	Pandas 2	./lectures/Lecture 6
2019-10-09 09:00-12:00 Wed	git/shell catchup
2019-10-10 09:00-12:00 Thu	Dask 1	./lectures/Lecture 7
2019-10-10 14:00-17:00 Thu	Dask 2	./lectures/Lecture 7
2019-10-11 09:00-12:00 Fri	Floating point representation	./lectures/Lecture 8
2019-10-11 14:00-17:00 Fri	High performance Python	./lectures/Lecture 8
2019-10-14 09:00-12:00 Mon	Python dev	./lectures/Lecture 9
2019-10-14 14:00-17:00 Mon	Python dev	./lectures/Lecture 9
2019-10-15 09:00-12:00 Tue	Testing	./lectures/Lecture 10
2019-10-15 14:00-17:00 Tue	Testing	./lectures/Lecture 10
2019-10-17 09:00-12:00 Thu	catchup
2019-10-17 14:00-17:00 Thu	DevOps	./lectures/Lecture 11
2019-10-18 12:00 Fri	Assessment deadline
2019-10-18 13:00-17:00 Fri	Systems overview	./lectures/Lecture 12

Assessment

• Assessment 1
• Assessment 2

Reading list:

• http://scipy-lectures.org
• https://stackoverflow.com
• A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python, by Hans Petter Langtangen
• Algorithms, by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne
• Bits and bugs, by Thomas Huckle and Tobias Neckel

Issues

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