NCAS Introduction to Scientific Computing Course, University of York, March 17-20 2014

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 Introduction to CEDA:

Due to file size limitations and the fact that the Introduction to CEDA presentation contains many images, the slides for this presentation have been divided into five sections:

• Part 1: CEDA overview

• Part 2: CEDA data users

• Part 3: CEDA data providers

• Part 4: JASMIN overview

• Part 5: JASMIN overview (continued)

Parallel Processing Large Data

Managing your code

File formats and metadata conventions

 The linux shell:

1. Introduction

2. Pipes and filters

3. Permissions

4. Finding things

5. Job control

6. Secure shell

7. Advanced shell tricks

8. Exercises and solutions 

 Introduction to Python:

1. Introduction 

2. Basics 

3. Booleans 

4. Control flow 

5. Lists 

6. Slicing 

7. Tuples 

8. Input and output 

9. Strings 

10. Functions 

11. More functions 

12. Libraries 

13. Scripts 

14. Sets 

15. Dictionaries 

16. Object Oriented Programming (OOP) 

17. Where next? 

18. Exercises and solutions 

 Data Analysis, Format Conversion and Visualisation:

1. Matplotlib 

2. Numpy 

3. Creating netCDF 

4. Atmospheric data formats 

5. Exercises 

6. Solutions