Schedule

Speaker: Bartosz Telenczuk

08:00→09:00 Registration
09:00→09:10 Welcome
09:10→11:00 Lecture (Part I)
11:00→11:30 Tea Break
11:30→13:00 Exercises (Part I)
13:00→14:00 Lunch Break
14:00→16:00 Lecture (Part II)
16:00→16:30 Tea Break
16:30→18:00 Exercises (Part II)

• Introduction to Python
• core Python
• Python data types
• Python standard library

Day 0 - Dive Into Python

Speakers: Pietro Berkes & Niko Wilbert

08:00→09:00 Registration
09:00→09:10 Welcome & organizatorial announcements
09:00→11:00 Lecture (Part I, Pietro - Best programming practices and Tools)
11:00→11:30 Tea Break
11:30→13:00 Exercises (Part I)
13:00→14:00 Lunch Break
14:00→16:00 Lecture with short break (Part II, Niko - Object Orientation and Design)
16:00→16:30 Tea Break
16:30→19:00 Exercises (Part II)
19:00→??:?? Opening Party!

• Agile development practices and Extreme Programming
• Test-driven development & unit testing
• Debugging, profiling and benchmarking techniques
• Python tools for agile development
• Object-oriented programming and design

Day1 - Software carpentry, Object Oriented Programming, and Design Patterns

Speaker: Jens Kremkow

09:00→11:00 Lecture
11:00→11:30 Tea Break
11:30→13:00 Exercises
13:00→14:00 Lunch Break
14:00→14:20 Presentation of the PacMan project (Pietro Berkes)
14:20→16:00 Programming Project
16:00→16:30 Tea Break
16:30→16:45 Efficient programming in a team (Michael Schmuker)
16:45→19:00 Programming Project

• NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, IPython
• Neuroscience libraries
• Programming project in the afternoon
• Efficient programming in teams

Day2 - NumPy, Matplotlib, SciPy

Speaker: Eilif Muller

09:00→11:00 Lecture
11:00→11:30 Tea Break
11:30→13:00 Exercises
13:00→14:00 Lunch Break
14:00→14:20 Quality Assurance (Tiziano Zito)
14:20→16:00 Programming Project
16:00→16:30 Tea Break
16:30→19:00 Programming Project & Preparation of the group teamwork reports
20:30→??:?? Movie Night
Details about food and drinks

• Python multiprocessing for SMP machines
• Distributed parallelization for cluster computing
• Programming project in the afternoon
• Quality Assurance

Day 3 - Parallelization

09:00→09:45 Group teamwork reports & discussion
09:45→11:00 Programming Project
11:00→11:30 Tea Break
11:30→13:00 Programming Project
13:00→14:00 Lunch Break
14:00→16:30 Programming Project
16:30→16:30 Programming Project deadline (SVN lock)
16:30→17:00 Tea Break
17:00→18:00 Guided discussion of team work experience
18:00→19:00 PacMan Tournament
19:00→??:?? Closing Party! : Barbecue
(unofficial event: 21:00 Nice concert in the Kollage…)

• Learning about different ways to organize a group
• It's the taking part that counts
• And finally: Work hard, party hard!