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it did its job, I went from knowing nothing about coding to being decent at it

but fuck it regardless

you could probably read the official python tutorial and do the examples to reach the same level

Could have just bought the textbook my course uses

and beyond

it is how I learned most of it

The textbook is actually quite good

it is based around computational physics problems, but it explains everything well

have you learned classes, generators, decorators, inheritance, polymorphism or multithreading yet?

Ha ha

no

not a real programming course yet

It never was

inheritance is when the fun starts

the point is to basically get to a point that you can do some basic data anaylsis and do numerical integration, differentiation, des, and linear algebra

multithreading is where the hell starts

I hope umbreon is okay

he was very angry last night

are you really not going to learn about classes at all? thats a very basic part of modern programming

I can go over everything we learn

1 sec

In order

basic mathmatical operations

importing functions

for, while, if, else, elif statements

variable types

was before that

print and input statements

we apparently covered break and continue, but I have never used it

those are useful

lists, arrays, both how they work, what you can do with them, etc

dicts?

not sure what that is

dictionaries

oh, no, never talked about that

it lets you use anything for the index instead of just numbers

reading an array from a file

thats a numpy thing

user defined functions

yeah, most of our work was with numpy

covered a bit of good coding practice stuff

such as naming variables, comments etc

then we changed gears and did graphs, density plots, hisograms,

we skipped the section in the textbook on 3d graphs

Then we talked about accuracy and speed

numerical error, inherent rounding error

floating point error

that

integrals and derivatives, did like 4 different techniques for integration and 2 or 3 for derivatives

and errors on both integrals and derivatives

so you went from learning programming to learning digital signal processing

basically yeah

this course is really just a "here is the shit you need to know for physics and nothing else" course

but not the fun dsp

then we did a bunch of shit that amounts to "use these packages to get functions to solve matricies and other linalg shit"

and talked nothing else about linalg

Did a bunch of nonlinar equation stuff

maximums, minimums, zeros of data

so you didn't talk about how and why numpy arrays are different from python arrays

then Des

and that is it

👉🏻 👌🏻

Considering this is the first I hear that there are more than one type of array

yes

We only really used numpy arrays

and lists

i guess python lists are what i meant

Oh

then no

we talked about that a lot

This course only has class 1 time a week

and 1 lab a week

so we did not cover much

yeah that covers basically nothing interesting

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Physics applications basically

we got to chapter 8, skipping 7 and most of 5

in my textbook

chapter 9 is partial des, 10 is random numbers, and 11 is just a bunch of advanced applications

does your textbook talk about classes?