Programming Level-up

Welcome to the Programming Level-up Course. In this series of lectures, we will cover everything we need to be able to program in a Linux-based environment, and use the high performance computers (also called cluster/supercomputers) to run experiments.

Contact information

You can find my personal page over at: https://pageperso.lis-lab.fr/jay.morgan/

As we progress through the lectures, I will also make the course publicly available. These lectures will be hosted at: https://pageperso.lis-lab.fr/jay.morgan/teaching.html in a variety of formats (i.e. PDF, HTML).

If you have any questions please email me directly. My email address is jay.morgan@univ-tln.fr. Other modes of contact can be found on my personal website listed above.

Resources

This course aims to deliver everything you need. If you attend each lecture, you will know what you need for the following lectures. Despite this design, however, I have included a list of additional resources below. These resources are optional, but they will take you beyond what you’re taught in these sessions and enable you to become a Programming Master!

There is nothing like a good book to learn from. They are usually rich in content, but also provide reasonable enough depth to the subject matter to not only learn how things work, but also why they work the way they do.

  • Think Python: An Introduction to Software Design - Livre d’Allen B. Downey
  • Numerical Python: Scientific Computing and Data Science Applications with Numpy, SciPy and Matplotlib - Livre de Robert Johansson.
  • Classic Shell Scripting - Livre de Arnold Robbins, Nelson H F Beebe

What will be taught

The course will cover a broad spectrum of skills used when programming for scientific research. This includes the programming and scripting itself (in our case, Python programming), managing the environment in which we work (i.e. working in a Linux-based environment and managing our projects with version control), and interacting with the supercomputers to perform intensive computations.

Source code

All of my lectures are available online, including the source code that was used in the lectures, and the source code used to generate the slides themselves. You can find this source code here:

Mirrors: