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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

i'm using numpy right now

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