Computer tools for astronomers

For the third year, this fall I am offering the 3⨉3 hours worksop: Computer Tools For Astronomers. The workshop contains an introduction to the Linux/Unix command line, to the $\LaTeX$ document preparation system and, not least, to Python-based tools for computations, data processing and visualization.

You can download the zip archive with slides, templates and notebooks.

HTML notebooks

I have put up passive HTML renditions of the IPython notebooks presented during the workshop, for those who just want to view the notebooks without running IPython:

• numpy arrays
• plotting with Matplotlib
• Working with FITS files
• Fitting with lmfit (one of several packages available)
• Some useful Astropy packages

The materials are from last year (2014) and are likely to be altered before the workshop this year.