Available at https://homepages.uc.edu/~schreihf/uchenry/post/computational-physics/
We will be using Python 3.6 and common scientific packages. Two install choices:
Interactive Apps
-> Jupyter Notebook
Launch
The browser based notebook should start in 1-3 minutes.
Note¶
Why not use official Python from python.org or my package manager?
The official builds are great, but you'll have to install all the packages yourself. Also, if it is a Python that is built into your system, you could break things by changing your packages. For now, using the Anaconda build provides you with everything you need, is safe for your system, and some packages are easier to install. There are special cases outside of this class where you might not want Anaconda Python, so talk to me if you think that might be the case.
Most courses spend a little (too little) time on these topics just to get started using Python. We are going to skip them for now, then return to them later in the course when we can focus our attention properly on them: