Ebook Python for computational science and engineering: Part 1

(BQ) Part 1 book "Python for computational science and engineering" has contents: Introduction, a powerful calculator, data Types and data structures, introspection, Input and Output, functions and modules, control flow,. and other contents. | Introduction to Python for Computational Science and Engineering (A beginner’s guide) Hans Fangohr Faculty of Engineering and the Environment University of Southampton September 7, 2015 2 Contents 1 Introduction Computational Modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Computational Modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Programming to support computational modelling Why Python for scientific computing? . . . . . . . . . . . Optimisation strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Get it right first, then make it fast . . . . . . . . . Prototyping in Python . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recorded video lectures on Python for beginners . Python tutor mailing list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Python version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Your feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 9 9 9 10 11 12 13 13 13 13 14 14 14 14 2 A powerful calculator Python prompt and Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) . . Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Integer division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . How to avoid integer division . . . . . . . . . . Why should I care about this division problem? Mathematical functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Variables . . . . . . . . .