Crash Python Course

This repository collects material for the course held in SISSA for 1st year PhD students of the Astrophysics & Cosmology sector.

Content

• lectures is a directory containing notebooks and materials used for python lectures (starting from Lec3)
• exercise0_bash is a walkthrough to better understand bash scripts and batches.
• exercise1_bash is an assignment in which students have to produce a script for renaming a given collection of files.
• exercise2_git contains instructions to solve the second assignment, in which students should co-operate on the development of a git repository.
• exercise3_pythonbasics contains the exercises for the 3rd assignment, in which students should solve some simple mathematical problems by writing python functions and scripts/programs.
• exercise4_classes contains the text of the last exercise. The assignment wraps up lot (if not everything) we have learned during the lectures and is supposed to push you a bit further.

Solutions of exercises (except to ex2 which explicitly requires to create a new repo) can be uploaded directly to your fork of this repository. Try to keep the repo tidy though, you can make a sub-directory in each excercise directory called solution or you can make a solutions directory from the root of the repository, your choice.

Useful links:

• Go at this link to find the installers and instructions to get and set-up Miniconda3 on your system.
• The conda cheat sheet is very useful and sufficient for most of the questions that might arise.