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Contents

Table of Contents

• About Lectures
• Introduction to Python
  • About Python
  • Setting up Your Python Environment
  • An Introductory Example
  • Functions
  • Python Essentials
  • OOP I: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
  • OOP II: Building Classes
• The Scientific Libraries
  • Python for Scientific Computing
  • NumPy
  • Matplotlib
  • SciPy
  • Numba
  • Parallelization
  • Pandas
• Advanced Python Programming
  • Writing Good Code
  • More Language Features
  • Debugging

Acknowledgements: These lectures have benefitted greatly from comments and suggestion from our colleagues, students and friends. Special thanks go to Anmol Bhandari, Long Bui, Jeong-Hun Choi, Chase Coleman, David Evans, Shunsuke Hori, Chenghan Hou, Doc-Jin Jang, Spencer Lyon, Qingyin Ma, Akira Matsushita, Matthew McKay, Tomohito Okabe, Alex Olssen, Nathan Palmer and Yixiao Zhou.

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