DTC Programming Course

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