A very basic introduction to scientific Python programmingΒΆ

Authors:Hans Petter Langtangen (hpl at simula.no), Leif Rune Hellevik (leif.r.hellevik at ntnu.no)
Date:Jul 27, 2016

Contents

This note introduces very basic programming elements, such as

  • variables for numbers, lists, and arrays
  • while loops and for loops
  • functions
  • if tests
  • plotting

through examples involving a mathematical formula. A glimpse of vectorization of code is also given.