Welcome to PHYS 410/510: Stuff about Scientific Programming
This course is fluid. There is no reason to be syllaballastic. I don't know yet what kinds of topics we will cover and in some cases material will be posted after the class happens and not before. Overall, this course is operating under the working assumption that physics students at the UO have limited skills in this new world of open-source tools, big data, visualizaiton and writing codes and scripts. Due to the highly variable nature of the individual student backgrounds we can not practically find a common start point. Our overall goal for this course is to provide you a framework for how to become more efficient at various data management tasks and associated pipeline programming to analyze managed data. While we will try to covert and impart some basic skills, mostly we will craft exercises and develop strategies for dealing with the myriad of issues that are now part of scientific programming and large data sets. |