schedule [Autumn School "Advanced Scientific Programming in Python"]

Registration starts at 8:30 on Monday.
Lectures start at 8:30 every day.

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Changes for a better experience on the Virtual Box

9:00-10:30 Advanced Python - Zbyszek
(decorators, context managers, exception handling, context managers, python3 if time permits)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Advanced Python exercises

13:30-14:30 Object-oriented programming and design patterns - Bartosz
14:30-16:30 OOP and design pattern exercises
16:30-17:00 Merenda break
17:00-18:30 Best Practices, Development Methodologies and the Zen of Python - Valentin

8:30-10:30 Version control (git: single user local repository, multi user central repo) - Emanuele
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Version control exercises
12:00-13:00 Python tools for software carpentry: unit testing, debugging, profiling - Pietro
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:00 Python tools for software carpentry: unit testing, debugging, profiling
15:00-16:00 Software carpentry exercises
16:00-16:30 Merenda break
16:30-18:00 Software carpentry exercises
18:00-18:30 Programming in teams - Tiziano

8:30-9:30 Advanced NumPy - Stéfan
9:30-10:30 Advanced Numpy exercises
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 The Quest for Speed (intro): Interfacing to C (Cython) - Stéfan
12:00-13:00 Parallel Session:
- Cython (exercises) - Stéfan
- Data Visualization (matplotlib & mayavi) (no exercises) - Bartosz

8:30-10:00 Writing parallel applications in Python - Eilif
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:30 When parallelization does not help: the starving CPUs problem - Francesc
11:30-13:00 Parallel Session:
- exercises - Eilif
- exercises - Francesc

note: there is also a graphical version of this schedule, but this one is canonical