CDT Software Course - TMCS 2018

Tues 16th - Fri 19th, May 2017.

Lars Andersen Bratholm (LAB), Mike O'Connor (MOC), Silvia Amabilino (SA), David Glowacki (DRG)

Timetable

Tuesday 29th May (DRG)

• 10:00 Introduction and Overview

• 10:15 Getting Started with Python

  • A simple Python Program

• 10:45 A simple live demo for debugging in PyCharm (DRG)

  • This video also provides a nice outline of how to debug in PyCharm

• 11:00 Learning more about Python

  • A Python Framework for Simple Game Mechanics
  • Basic Python features
    • containers, lists, and dictionaries
    • functions & modules
    • documenting Code
  • Basic Principles of Object-Oriented Programming
  • Other Potentially useful stuff
    • Python tutorial (use as a reference, not an actual tutorial)
    • Already a python expert? Try some Project Euler challenges.

• 11:30 coffee

• 13:00 Lunch

• 14:00 Scipy and NumPy

• 15:15 Coffee

• 15:30 Experiment & Play: Use what you've learned to hack-your-own game mechanics

• 17:30 Finish

Wednesday 30th May (LAB, MOC, SA, DRG)

• 10:00 Experiment & Play: Use what you've learned to hack-your-own game mechanics
• 11:15 coffee
• 11:30 Version Control
  • Part 1: Basic git - structure & commands - LAB
• 12:30 Lunch
• 13:30 Version Control
  • Part 2: Remote repos & GIT GUIs - LAB
  • live code example: how to upload your game projects onto github using gitkraken
• 14:30 coffee
• 14:45 Testing software and catching errors (slides) - LAB/DRG
• 15:15 A REALLY Quick overview of machine learning & data science (DRG)
• 15:45 coffee
• 16:00 Overview of the three hackathon projects
  • LAB - Learning with TensorFlow - slides
  • SA - Machine learning potential energy surfaces
  • MOC - Machine learning hand pose for interactive molecular simulation in VR
• 16:30 coffee
• 16:45 The data science pipeline slides - LAB
  • jupyter notebook
• 17:45 Pub. Students should take this opportunity to organize themselves into their project groups

Thursday 31st May (LAB, MOC, SA, DRG)

• 10:00 - 18:00 hackathon
  • group 1 led by LAB - tutorial here
  • group 2 led by SA - repository here
  • group 3 led by MOC - repository here
• 12:00 - 13:00 guest lecture: Clare Macrae (developer @Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre)
  • download link for Clare's ppt slides: professional software development
• 18:00 - 19:00 pizza/wine party!

Friday 1st Jun (LAB, MOC, SA, DRG)

• 10:00 - 16:00 hackathon
• 16:00 - 17:00 show and tell

Hints and tips

Hints and tips on common Bash and editor commands.

Beginners guide to using the shell

Before you arrive...

We recommend that you bring your own laptop to work on (so that you can easily continue to use the same tools for the hackathon!).

You should test your installation using our testing scripts. To access these start a shell and run the commands:

git clone https://github.com/larsbratholm/boot-camps.git
cd boot-camps/setup

before following these instructions.

You also need to create a free individual account on GitHub. Make sure you know your username and password when you arrive

We recommend that you to work through this short tutorial on Beginning Python to refresh yourself on Python.

Acknowledgements

Much of this workshop borrows from the great resource that is Software Carpentry.