92nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012)

Session A Beginner’s Course to Using Python in Climate and Meteorology: Day 1

Saturday, 21 January 2012: 8:30 AM-5:15 PM
Room 238 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Host: Short Course
Organizers:  Johnny Wei-Bing Lin, North Park Univ.
Lecturers:  Johnny Wei-Bing Lin, North Park Univ.
Papers:
  8:30 AM
ARRIVAL AND INTRODUCTIONS

  8:45 AM
PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT SETUP AND TROUBLESHOOTING
Johnny Wei-Bing Lin, North Park Univ., Chicago, IL

  9:00 AM
INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON: WHAT IS AND WHY PYTHON?
Johnny Wei-Bing Lin, North Park Univ., Chicago, IL

  9:30 AM
USING THE PYTHON INTERPRETER AND INTERACTIVE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT (IDE)
Johnny Wei-Bing Lin, North Park Univ., Chicago, IL

  10:00 AM
COFFEE BREAK

  10:30 AM
BASIC DATA AND CONTROL STRUCTURES
Johnny Wei-Bing Lin, North Park Univ., Chicago, IL

  12:00 PM
LUNCH BREAK

  1:30 PM
ARRAY OPERATIONS
Johnny Wei-Bing Lin, North Park Univ., Chicago, IL

  3:00 PM
COFFEE BREAK

  3:30 PM
FILE INPUT AND OUTPUT
Johnny Wei-Bing Lin, North Park Univ., Chicago, IL

  5:00 PM
ASSIGN OPTIONAL HOMEWORK: PUTTING TOGETHER A BASIC DATA ANALYSIS ROUTINE
Johnny Wei-Bing Lin, North Park Univ., Chicago, IL

  5:15 PM
COURSE ADJOURNS FOR THE DAY

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