Description
Book SynopsisSeries in Computational Physics
Steven A. Gottlieb and Rubin H. Landau, Series Editors
Introduction to Python for Science and Engineering
This guide offers a quick and incisive introduction to Python programming for anyone. The author has carefully developed a concise approach to using Python in any discipline of science and engineering, with plenty of examples, practical hints, and insider tips.
Readers will see why Python is such a widely appealing program, and learn the basics of syntax, data structures, input and output, plotting, conditionals and loops, user-defined functions, curve fitting, numerical routines, animation, and visualization. The author teaches by example and assumes no programming background for the reader.
David J. Pine is the Silver Professor and Professor of Physics at New York University, and Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the NYU Tandon School
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"A comprehensive introduction and a practical guide to the Python programming language for scientists and engineers. Chapters intuitively introduce programming concepts around scientific problems. This approach resonates with scientists and engineers and helps them understand programming paradigms faster." --Ana Bell, PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Table of Contents1. Introduction. 2. Launching Python. 3. Strings, Lists, Arrays, and Dictionaries. 4. Input and Output. 5. Conditionals and Loops. 6. Plotting 7. Functions. 8. Curve Fitting. 9. Numerical Routines: SciPy and NumPy. 10. Data Manipulation and Analysis: Pandas. 11. Animation. 12. Python Classes & GUIs Appendix A. Installing Python. Appendix B. Jupyter notebooks. Appendix C. Glossary Appendix D. Python Resources.
