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layout: bootcamp
root: .
venue: University of Waterloo
address: Engineering 6 room 4022, 200 University Ave, Waterloo
country: Canada
humandate: March 21-22, 2015
humantime: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
startdate: 2015-03-21
enddate: 2015-03-22
latlng: 43.473269, -80.538639
registration: restricted
instructor: ["Nasser M Abukhdeir", "Pawel Pomorski", "Albert O'Connor"]
helper: ["WatPy", "SHARCNET"]
contact: nmabukhdeir@uwaterloo.ca
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<a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://conferences.adt.its.uwo.ca/default.aspx?conferenceID=158" target="_blank">Register for the Event</a>

<h2>General Information</h2>

<p>
  <a href="//software-carpentry.org">Software Carpentry</a>'s mission
  is to help scientists and engineers become more productive
  by teaching them basic skills for computing
  like program design, version control, data management, and task automation.
  This two-day hands-on bootcamp will cover basic concepts and tools with a focus on scientific computing for first-year graduate students.
  Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
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<p>
  <strong>Who:</strong>
  The course is aimed at incoming graduate students who wants to learn basic program skills, Python and scientific computing.
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<p>
  <strong>Requirements:</strong>
  Participants must bring a laptop with a few specific software packages installed
  (listed below).
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    <strong>Lunch and Coffee are provided.</strong>
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<h2>Schedule</h2>

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  <div class="span6">
    <h3>Day 1</h3>
    <table class="table table-striped">
      <tr> <td>09:00</td> <td>Automating tasks with the Unix shell</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td><em>10:30</em></td> <td><em>Coffee break</em></td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>10:45</td><td>Intro to Source Control</td></tr>
      <tr> <td>12:00</td> <td>Lunch break</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>13:00</td> <td>Intro to Python</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td><em>14:30</em></td> <td><em>Coffee break</em></td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>14:45</td> <td>Coding Practice</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>16:00</td> <td>Wrap up</td> </tr>
    </table>
  </div>
  <div class="span6">
    <h3>Day 2</h3>
    <table class="table table-striped">
      <tr> <td>09:00</td> <td>Numpy</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td><em>10:30</em></td> <td><em>Coffee break</em></td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>10:45</td><td>Numpy</td></tr>
      <tr> <td>12:00</td> <td>Lunch break</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>13:00</td> <td>Plotting with PyLab</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td><em>14:30</em></td> <td><em>Coffee break</em></td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>14:45</td> <td>Practice Problem Session</td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>16:00</td> <td>Wrap up</td> </tr>
    </table>
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<h2 id="syllabus">Syllabus</h2>

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    <h3>The Unix Shell</h3>
    <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/v5/novice/shell/index.html" target="_blank">Course Materials</a>
    <ul>
      <li>Files and directories: <code>pwd</code>, <code>cd</code>, <code>ls</code>, <code>mkdir</code>, ...</li>
      <li>History and tab completion</li>
      <li>Pipes and redirection</li>
      <li>Looping over files</li>
      <li>Creating and running shell scripts</li>
      <li>Finding things: <code>grep</code>, <code>find</code>, ...</li>
      <li><a href="novice/ref/01-shell.html">Reference...</a></li>
    </ul>
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    <h3>Programming in Python</h3>
    <a href="http://watpy.ca/learn/introduction/Python%20for%20Coders.md" target="_blank">Course Materials</a>
    <ul>
      <li>Using libraries</li>
      <li>Working with arrays</li>
      <li>Reading and plotting data</li>
      <li>Creating and using functions</li>
      <li>Loops and conditionals: <code>for</code>, <code>if</code>, <code>else</code>, ...</li>
      <li>Defensive programming</li>
      <li>Using Python from the command line</li>
      <li><a href="novice/ref/03-python.html">Reference...</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
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    <h3>Version Control with Mercurial</h3>
    <a href="http://watpy.ca/learn/source-control/Intro%20Source%20Control.md" target="_blank">Course Materials</a>
    <ul>
      <li>Version control for text based files</li>
      <li>Creating a repository</li>
      <li>Recording changes to files: <code>add</code>, <code>commit</code>, ...</li>
      <li>Viewing changes: <code>status</code>, <code>diff</code>, ...</li>
      <li>Ignoring files</li>
      <li>Working on the web: <code>clone</code>, <code>pull</code>, <code>push</code>, ...</li>
      <li>Resolving conflicts</li>
      <li>Open licenses</li>
      <li>Where to host work, and why</li>
    </ul>
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  <h3>NumPy and SciPy</h3>
  <a href="http://chemeng.uwaterloo.ca/abukhdeir/sc.zip" target="_blank">Download Notebooks</a>
  <ul>
      <li>Using Python for numeric computation</li>
  </ul>
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<h2>Setup</h2>

<p>
  To participate in a Software Carpentry bootcamp, 
  you will need working copies of the software described below.
  Please make sure to install everything
  (or at least to download the installers)
  <em>before</em> the start of your bootcamp.
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