Cookies-n-Code, CAS

A repository for all the current and past discussions and tutorialss at Cookies 'n' Code at Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (CAS), Swinburne.

Ground Rules

• Keep your comments constructive.
• As much as possible, keep your comments positive. If you have to say “That’s not the right way to do that”, maybe add “but it’s a good/common starting point”.
• Keep conversation to a minimum when someone is presenting/talking to the whole group.

Covered Topics

You can find all of the covered topics here.

Beginner Friendly Topics

• An Introduction to SSH: SSH Keys and SSH Config (Adam Batten, @abatten)
• Getting started with version control (Git and Github) (Manodeep Sinha, @manodeep)
• A beginner's guide to vaex (Mohsen Shamohammadi, @mshamohammadi)

Git

• Getting started with version control (git and mercurial) (Manodeep Sinha, @manodeep) BEGINNER FRIENDLY
• Intro to git
• Creating and hosting your website with github (Adam Batten, @abatten)

Python

• Python Basics (Dany Vohl, @macrocosme)
• Intro to Pandas for (Leonie Chevalier, @leoniechevalier)
• Python Virtual Environments Cheat-Sheet (Colin Jacobs, @coljac)
• Running jupyter notebooks remotely (Wael Farah, @wfarah)
• Introduction to Python decorators and factories (Ellert van der Velden, @1313e)
• Introduction to (Py)Qt5 (Ellert van der Velden, @1313e)
• A beginner's guide to vaex (Mohsen Shamohammadi, @mshamohammadi)
• Making Pretty Matplotlib Plots with plt.rcParams (Adam Batten, @abatten)

The Python Visualisation Mega-Month

• Interactive Python Plots with Bokeh (Aditya Parthasarathy, @aparthas3112)
• Dos and do-nots for plotting in Python (Renée Spiewak, @respiewak)
• Passing Matplotlib axes to functions to make easy multi-panel plots (Jacob Seiler, @jacobseiler)

Interactive Python Plots

• Interacting with points in a python plot (Sabine Bellstedt, @SabineBellstedt)
• Making interactive plots with Bokeh + Custom Colormaps(Robert Dzudzar, @rdzudzar)

Profiling and Speeding Up Python Code

• Jupyter Notebook with with line_profiler (Jacob Seiler, @jacobseiler)
• Speeding up your Python code -- writing a C extension for python (Manodeep Sinha, @manodeep)
• Speeding up your Python code -- writing a Cython extension (Wael Farah, @wfarah)

Python MCMC

• Jupyter Notebook and emcee (Caitlin Adams, @caitlinadams)

Python MPI

• Intro to mpi4py (Manodeep Sinha, @manodeep)
• Another intro to mpi4py (Jacob Seiler, @jacobseiler)

Python Testing and Package Development

• Introduction to building a Python package (Ellert van der Velden, @1313e)
• Automating Testing With Travis (Jacob Seiler, @jacobseiler)

Talks at the Python in Astronomy Conference series

All the talks are stored and indexed on Zenodo

Misc. Python Tutorials

• Web scraping and wordclouds with python (Manodeep Sinha, @manodeep)
• Predict the gender of a name using ML (Wael Farah, @wfarah)

Shell

• Shell environments and Scripting (Leonie Chevalier, @leoniechevalier and Manodeep Sinha, @manodeep)
• Introduction to awk (Manodeep Sinha, @manodeep)
• Shell Tips and Tricks (Adam Batten, @abatten)
• Version Control Dotfile (Adam Batten, @abatten)
• Some Useful, Modern Command Line Utilities (Daniel Berke, @DBerke)

C

• Demystifying C pointers and function calls (Manodeep Sinha, @manodeep)
• Intel Vtune Visual Profiler (Jacob Seiler, @jacobseiler)

SQL

• Intro to SQL (Sarah Hegarty, @)

OzStar

• Getting Started on OzSTAR (Manodeep Sinha, @manodeep)
• Running jupyter notebooks remotely (Wael Farah, @wfarah)

IDES

• How and why you should use a debugger in Python (Oliver Coad, @olivercoad)

Misc. Topics

• S2PLOT -- 3D interactive visualization tool (Chris Fluke, @cfluke) GEM on 26/04/2017
• Creating a GPU version of an existing CPU code (Greg Poole, @gpoole)
• Understanding how Executables and Packages are Found (Manodeep Sinha, @manodeep)
• Makefiles (Manodeep Sinha, @manodeep)

SSH Keys and Config

• An Introduction to SSH: SSH Keys and SSH Config (Adam Batten, @abatten) BEGINNER FRIENDLY
• Intro to setting up SSH Keys and SSH config (Adam Batten, @abatten)
• SSH Autocompletion Script (from SciCoder via @respiewak)

Code and Plot Brags

• Code and Plot Brags (Many authors - added by Manodeep Sinha, @manodeep)