DTC Programming Course

teaching

Author

Philip Fowler

Published

October 31, 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