Course Notes:

PH2150 - Post Exam Python (to be moved onto the PH2150 Moodle page during the summer moodle rol-over)

Read this first Basic Python notes (written for 2.x, to be updated during the summer): ph2150_notes_2016.pdf (25 pages)

The complete guide to Scientific Programming in Python written by the developers: ScipyLectures-simple.pdf, html version here https://www.scipy-lectures.org/

Post Exam Week:

1. Introduction
   • Starting python and getting used to the environment
   • Python as a calculator
2. Functions
   • Write your own functions to do something useful
   • Use functions already defined in python or python libraries
3. Lists
   • Lists to store data
   • Functions on lists
4. Control structures
   • Conditionals (==, etc)
   • if, for, while
5. Arrays
   • Data and mathematical data structures
6. Plotting
   • Scatter plot
   • Axis labels
7. Advanced plotting
   • Star data
   • STM data

Post Exam Lectures:

Lecture 1: ( Jupyter Notebook) Course Aims, Lecture-1-PH2150_Post_Exam_Scietific_Computing_and_Employabilty_Skills.ipynb

Lecture 1: (html file, runs in browser) Course Aims, Lecture-1-PH2150_Post_Exam_Scietific_Computing_and_Employabilty_Skills.html

Lecture 2: (pptx), Modules, Control Structures, Functions, lecture2-2018am.pptx

Lecture 2-PM: (Jupyter Notebook),User Defined Functions, Lecture-2pm-userdefinedfunction.ipynb

Lecture Wed AM: (pptx) The Numpy Array, lecture4-2018.pptx

PH2150 Problem sheets:

PS1: (Due in after the first session in the Autumn term) PH2150-2018-PS1.pdf

PS2: (Due in after 2nd session in the Autumn term) PH2150-2018-PS2.pdf

PS3: (Due in before 3rd session in the Autumn term) PH2150-2018-PS3.pdf