1. Script Languages in Science CCOM Student Seminar Series Kurt Schwehr 12-Nov-2008

2. http://vislab-ccom.unh.edu/~schwehr/Classes/2008/

3. Scripting Languages

4. bash Comes with Linux and Mac Windows can get it via “cygwin” Good to use as “glue” to hold it all together Automate common tasks

7. Full power of the Unix command line

8. Why python? Support on many operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux) More fun to program Promotes readable code Many support libraries (modules) including databases, plotting, geospatial, scientific processing Used by Arc/GIS No licenses required / free / open-source Useful for almost all application types “Easy” access to C and C++ libraries

9. Getting Python Windows – enthought, cygwin, or python.org Mac – built in, fink/macports, or python.org Linux – built in or python.org

11. Python Books http://www.coderholic.com/free-python-programming-books/ A Byte of Python - http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python Text Processing in Python - http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/ Thinking In Python - http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIPython

12. If there is interest, I can teach an in-depth python short course

13. Python.org and Pypi

17. Reading a file

18. How did I collect this data? pyserial!

19. Parsing the lines

23. matplotlib

25. Histograms

26. projections

27. ipython

28. Databases

29. Using libraries in other languages Almost anything written in C, C++ or Fortran can be used in Python There are many ways to accomplish this: – SWIG – SIP – PyInline – CPython – Ctypes – Boost Python – …

30. Thanks for listening!