Getting started with Scientific Programming

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Post by functionspace » Fri, Aug 16, 2013, 4:09 PM UTC

Getting started with Scientific Programming
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Re: Getting started with Scientific Programming

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Post by japaget » Fri, Aug 16, 2013, 5:46 PM UTC

The article refers to the Synaptic Package Manager, which is available on many Debian-based Linux distros. Your OS may use something different. The general instructions in the article on using Python with SciPy, NumPy, Maxima, and MatPlotLib and should work with any OS, including Windows and Mac OS X.

Re: Getting started with Scientific Programming

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 16, 2013, 6:35 PM UTC

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Re: Getting started with Scientific Programming

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Post by mathattack » Fri, Aug 16, 2013, 8:52 PM UTC

Very useful introduction!

Re: Getting started with Scientific Programming

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Post by takluyver » Sat, Aug 17, 2013, 2:45 AM UTC

japaget wrote: post #2

The article refers to the Synaptic Package Manager, which is available on many Debian-based Linux distros. Your OS may use something different. The general instructions in the article on using Python with SciPy, NumPy, Maxima, and MatPlotLib and should work with any OS, including Windows and Mac OS X.

There are more general instructions for getting these tools set up here: http://www.scipy.org/install.html

Re: Getting started with Scientific Programming

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Post by expaand » Sat, Aug 17, 2013, 5:31 PM UTC

I would add to this excellent intro: pandas, for doing data analysis, and the fabulous ipython notebook for easily interacting with your computations.