Title Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping NOAA/UNH Joint Hydrographic Center Windows Python Tutorial Kurt Schwehr Jan 2007

Day 1 Introduction and Basic Mechanics Installing python and a source code editor Editing and running script files Using the IPython shell Basic python concepts

Class website:

Python Homepage

Online documentation

Books

Videos

Installing python

Download and install the big package

What you get

You can use dos

Exit with Ctrl-D or Ctrl-Z

Cygwin is also good Challenge is getting all the packages installed

Start ipython!

What is ipython?

IPython: an Enhanced Python Shell

Get started with IPython

We need to be able to save & run scripts

Start SciTE

Initial ScitTE view

Ex01 - hellow world

Saving a file in SciTE

Running ex01.py

Basic string operations

Getting help with the ‘tab’ key

More string operations

Lists are created with [ ]

The math module

Getting help on functions

More help

from math import *

If tests and indentation matters

for loops

Matplot lib

1st plot

2nd plot