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+ | Scientists spend more and more time writing, maintaining, | ||
+ | only few scientists have been trained to use them. As a result, instead of doing their research, they spend far too much time writing deficient code and | ||
+ | reinventing the wheel. In this course we will present a selection of advanced programming techniques and best practices which are standard in the industry, | ||
+ | but especially tailored to the needs of a programming scientist. Lectures are devised to be interactive and to give the students enough time to acquire | ||
+ | direct hands-on experience with the materials. Students will work in pairs throughout the school and will team up to practice the newly learned skills in a | ||
+ | real programming project — an entertaining computer game. | ||
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+ | We use the Python programming language for the entire course. Python works as a simple programming language for beginners, but more | ||
+ | importantly, | ||
+ | great wealth of open source libraries for scientific computing and data visualization are driving Python to become a standard tool for the | ||
+ | programming scientist. | ||
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+ | This school is targeted at Master or PhD students and Post-docs from all areas of science. Competence in Python or in another language such as Java, | ||
+ | C/C++, MATLAB, or R is absolutely required. Basic knowledge of Python and of a version control system such as git, subversion, mercurial, | ||
+ | or bazaar is assumed. Participants without any prior experience with Python and/or git should work through the proposed | ||
+ | [[introductory_material|introductory material]] **before** the course. | ||
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+ | We are striving hard to get a pool of students which is international and gender-balanced: | ||
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+ | === Date & Location === | ||
+ | **31 August–5 September, 2020**. [[location|Ghent]], | ||
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+ | Applications are closed and candidates have been invited. | ||
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+ | **If you missed the application deadline**, write to [[info@aspp.school]] to be put on the announcement list for ASPP **2021**. | ||
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+ | If you are in Latin America you may want to attend to [[https:// | ||
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+ | === Program === | ||
+ | * Version control with git and how to contribute to open source projects with GitHub | ||
+ | * Best practices in data visualization | ||
+ | * Testing and debugging scientific code | ||
+ | * Advanced NumPy | ||
+ | * Organizing, documenting, | ||
+ | * Advanced scientific Python: context managers and generators | ||
+ | * Writing parallel applications in Python | ||
+ | * Profiling and speeding up scientific code with Cython and numba | ||
+ | * Programming in teams | ||
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+ | === Sponsors === | ||
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+ | We are able to hold this year's ASPP school thanks to the generous | ||
+ | support of the Ghent University, the Flemish government and our long | ||
+ | time supporter, the | ||
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