DTC Programming Course Philip Fowler, 31st October 20169th December 2016 Advanced Resources for the Curious http://software-carpentry.org http://www.datacarpentry.org http://rosalind.info Comics http://xkcd.com http://phdcomics.com Installing python on your laptop A good guide is to follow SciPy’s instructions. On my Mac I install python and its modules using MacPorts. For Windows I’d use Enthought Canopy or Anaconda. These work on Mac and Linux as well and give you python + a broad distribution of modules, including numpy and scipy. Free Geeky Resources GitHub do a great Student Developer Pack which includes some free Amazon Web Services time and also a GitHub account with unlimited repositories. Linux tips TAB autocomplete use the up and down ARROW keys to cycle through previous commands HISTORY displays your previous commands. Each has an associated number e.g. 534. !534 Will re-run that command Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon Related teaching
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