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* for French speaking students, you may have a look at the [[ | * for French speaking students, you may have a look at the [[Memento_Python]] | ||
* for English speaking students, there are many resources throughout the web: possible ones are | |||
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** [http://www.scipy-lectures.org/ Scipy lecture notes] |
Revision as of 17:34, 7 September 2017
You need to install a Python distribution that contains the scientific libraries scipy, numpy and matplotlib. Therefore, you should have a look at the Scipy install webpage.
We will try to work with Python 3 codes mostly so it is good for you to have Python 3 installed (there are two versions of Python, Python 2 and Python 3, which are not fully compatible).
In order to run scripts, you have several options~:
- use the command line and some text editor (mostly Linux and Mac)
- use some simple IDE such as Idle (provided by the standard distribution) or Spyder (friendly under windows for instance)
- use the IPython notebook called Jupyter (for Windows, Mac and Linux) in which you can write text+formula+code+output, as in Mathematica. The notebook is an option to write your reports for Homeworks, together with the usual TeX+Figures
some distributions
- under Mac or Linux, installing from packages should be friendly. Installing Anaconda is also a good option as it contains everything but is heavy.
- under windows, we recommend to install Anaconda, beware that it takes a lot of disk memory (more than a Gbyte). You can select packages.
learning Python and Numpy
- for French speaking students, you may have a look at the Memento_Python
- for English speaking students, there are many resources throughout the web: possible ones are