Materials for Scientific Python Course for astronomers of Moscow University

How to use this repository

Read files from scientific_python folder in alphabetical order and try to understand how all prints and asserts work.

Repository structure

This repository has a structure of a Python package with some additional files:

• scientific_python folder that represents top level package of the same name. This package contains several sub-packages and modules. You can start with a_intro sub-package and read its modules one by one in alfabetical order. All modules can be used as separate modules and scripts without package installation
• bin folder contains scripts that can be used after package installation. Now they are used for testing
• doc folder is used for documentation. Now it contains only MS Word file with course annotation (in Russian)
• misc contains two subfolders related to Juyter notebooks used in class:
  • jupyter_notebooks contains notebooks and other files used in class sorted by date
  • share_jupyter contains little Docker project that runs my class Jupyter server and exposes notebook HTML copies to the world on sai.homb.it
• setup.py is used to install this package
• requirements.txt file contains Python dependicies of the project.
• virtualenv_activation.sh is a sample shell script that can be used to activate virtualenv and install the package. Use it by typing . virtualenv_activation.sh or source virtualenv_activation.sh. For exit virtualenv type deactivate
• Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml files can be used to run the project into Docker container
• .gitignore and .gitattributes are git related files
• .dockerignore is a link to .gitignore
• .travis.yml is a Travis configuration file. Travis is a continius integration (CI) system used to test this project with various Python versions: 2.7 and 3.*