Various writings

Hans Petter Langtangen

• Recent books:
• Programming for Computations - A Gentle Introduction to Numerical Simulations with Python or MATLAB/Octave
• Finite Difference Computing with Exponential Decay Models
• Scaling of Differential Equations
• Finite Difference Computing with Partial Differential Equations
• Introdution to Numerical Methods for Variational Problems
• The FEniCS Tutorial
• How to write books in DocOnce: HTML, PDF, Sphinx UiO, Sphinx bootstrap
• Best practice for DocOnce book writing
• Quick Intro to Version Control Systems and Project Hosting Sites:
• Use of Bitbucket and GitHub with Git: plain HTML (one page), HTML bootstrap (multiple pages), HTML solarized colors (one page), Sphinx HTML, PDF for electronic viewing, PDF for printing.
• Use of GitHub with Git (shorter version): plain HTML (one file), HTML bootstrap (multiple pages), HTML solarized colors (one file), Sphinx HTML, PDF for electronic viewing, PDF for printing.
• How to debug Python code: PDF, HTML bootstrap
• How to Generate API Documentation with Sphinx: Sphinx, PDF
• How to access Python for doing scientific computing: HTML bootstrap, HTML solarized, PDF, special HTML version for the book A primer on Scientific Programming with Python. Older version: How To Install Ubuntu in a VMWare Fusion Virtual Machine
• Common operating system tasks done in cross-platform Python code: HTML bootstrap, HTML solarized, PDF
• Software testing with nose and pytest: HTML bootstrap, HTML solarized, PDF
• Experience with using Python for teaching scientific computing: HTML, PDF, Sphinx
• Learning outcomes for computing competence: PDF, HTML (newer version of Numerical programming guide - Python vs Matlab: PDF, HTML)
• Examples on writing scientific reports in various formats (LaTeX, Sphinx, HTML, ...)
• Examples on generating slides in HTML5, Beamer, Remark, etc. with numerous styles
• What is DocOnce and how to use it (slides)
• Tutorials on Scientific Computing with Python
• Introduction to Cython for Solving Differential Equations: PDF, solarized HTML, Sphinx
• Monte Carlo Simulation with Cython: PDF, plain HTML, Sphinx, Solarized HTML