Programming Bootcamp for Scientists #3

Bootcamp

  • 00:00 More in the "First steps" chapter

  • 00:47 Nóra had a couple of questions:

  •      Should we use Atom as an editor?

  •      Should we use Python downloaded from Python.org?

  •      What if we have two installations of Python on our computer?

  •      What other editors and programming environments to use?

  • 11:20 Asking questions?

  • 12:15 What is programming?

  • 18:05 What are the programming languages?

  • 22:05 Let's eat grandpa! Words and punctuation matter!

  • 22:35 Literals, Value Types - The consistency of single- and double-quotes.

  • 30:20 Running the script using a relative path. Showing exceptions (runtime errors) and how to try to understand them.

  • 34:00 How to search for explanation about an exception. How to interpret what we see in StackOverflow.

  • 39:30 The type system in Python and other languages.

  • 40:50 The floating point error

  • 43:40 Value Types in Numpy, Binary (base 2) representation of numbers.

  • Python Slides

Author

Gabor Szabo (szabgab)

Gabor Szabo, the author of the Python Maven web site.

Gabor Szabo