{"id":5568,"date":"2014-09-22T13:15:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T12:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5568"},"modified":"2014-09-22T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T12:15:02","slug":"python-notes-for-matlab-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5568","title":{"rendered":"Python notes for MATLAB users"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mathematics department<\/a> at The University of Manchester<\/a> runs a third year undergraduate module called ‘Problem solving by computer’ which invites students to solve complex mathematical problems by doing a little programming. Along with some interesting mathematics, the course exposes students to a wide variety of languages and numerical libraries including MATLAB<\/a>, Octave<\/a>, NAG<\/a>, Mathematica<\/a> and, most recently, Python<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Python was introduced as an option for students who wanted to use it for a project in this course and, despite only being given two lectures in the language, quite a few people chose to use it. Much of this success must be attributed to the Python for MATLABers notes written by Manchester PhD student, Sophia Coban<\/a>\u00a0which is why I’m providing links to them here.<\/p>\n