Working With Python

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introduction
• self assessment
• scientific programming today
• comparison with

experimental science

• comparison with industry
• solutions
• changes on the horizon
• course content
• what you will need
• open source vs. commercial tools
• contributing
• recommended reading
• typographic conventions
• summary

Shell Basics

• Introduction
• the shell
• shell vs. operating system
• file system
• absolute and relative paths
• basic navigation commands
• command execution cycle
• command flags
• creating files and directories
• basic tools
• summary

More Shell

• Introduction
• wildcards
• input
• output
• and redirection
• pipes
• environment variables
• configuration
• the PATH variable
• file ownership and permission
• directory permissions
• changing permissions
• Windows ownership and permission
• some more advanced tools
• summary

Version Control

• Introduction
• Collaboration
• version control systems
• choosing a version control system
• basic operations
• command line and GUI clients
• resolving conflicts
• starvation
• binary files
• reverting
• rolling back
• creating repositories and checking out working copies
• Subversion command reference
• reading Subversion output
• summary

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