Chapter 3. Python - Basics

Google drive folder with Jupyter Notebooks used in class: Jupyter Notebooks from class

• Introduction to Python
  • Reading Materials for This Chapter
  • Fortran vs. Python
  • Running Python
  • Python 2 vs. Python 3?
  • Interactive Interpreter
• Overview on Python Programming
  • Interactive Python
  • Indentation: In Python indentation is everything!
  • Ending and wrapping lines
  • Comments
  • Python data types
  • Strings
  • Docstrings
  • Lists
  • Tuples
  • Iterators and range
  • Python objects
  • Declaring variables?
  • Copying objects
  • Mutable and Immutable objects
• Python scripts and modules
  • Importing modules
  • The Python Path
  • Reloading modules
  • Other forms of import
  • Installing new modules and using virtual environments
• Dictionaries
  • Relational storage
  • Dictionary as a set of counters
  • Dictionaries and lists
  • Dictionaries and memoization
  • Global variables
  • An example study
• Python functions and lambdas
  • Defining your own functions
  • Special arguments to functions: *args and **kwargs
  • Lambda functions
• Documentation in Python
  • Documentation suitable for the web
  • Markdown
  • reStructuredText
  • Conversion tools