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Performing scientific experiments

Goal: explore the behavior of a numerical method for a differential equation and show how scientific experiments can be set up and reported.

Tasks:

Write scripts to automate experiments

Generate scientific reports from scripts

Tools to learn:

os.system for running other programs

subprocess for running other programs and extracting the output

List comprehensions

Formats for scientific reports: HTML w/MathJax, LaTeX, Sphinx, DocOnce