Potential topics for Python user-group meetings.
Basic math & numpy
mean, abs, max, and related functionslen vs size vs shape- Difference between Matlab and numpy vectors, arrays, and matrices
- Index vectors and arrays
- Binary scalar expansion
- Masked arrays
Basic programming
int vs float- Concatenation of strings, lists, etc.
- Looping,
enumerate, and zip
- Arguments and keyword arguments (including defaults)
- Namespaces
- Running scripts from command line and argument parsing
lambda (anonymous) functions
Matplotlib commands
- Other plot types
- Object-oriented vs procedural interfaces(i.e.:
a.mean(0) vs np.mean(a, axis=0)
- Use of
from pylab import * and why it's good/bad...
- Managing figures, axes, and subplots:
subplot, subplots, gridspec, et al.
IPython
- Interactive
ipython environment
- Inline plotting
ipython notebooks
