This is the repository that holds ipython notebooks, python scripts, a syllabus, and other materials for Katy Huff's NPRE247 course at UofI.
The syllabus will be kept up to date in this repository. It is subject to change, so please keep checking it.
The easiest way to run the notebooks is to let mybinder.org do it for you. Just go to mybinder.org:/repo/katyhuff/npre247.
If you have trouble, it may be due to the mybinder servers being overloaded. This is a fairly common occurance, because their servers are funded entirely by the research budget of Dr. Jeremy Freeman.. You can find out the status of mybinder on their status page.
To run them on your own computer, where you can save changes, you will need to install python and install git.
Download and install the scientific python distribution called anaconda. You will need python version 3.0 or greater.
I recommend gaining access to the course notebooks via the version control
program, git. Instructions for installing git on different platforms can be
found here.
If you have installed git, open a terminal program (or the Git Bash For Windows program if you are on windows and execute the command:
git clone https://github.com/katyhuff/npre247.git
If you have not installed git, you can download the notebooks as a zip file from here. Then, unzip the directory.
You should now have a directory somewhere on your computer called npre247. Open a terminal (or the git bash for windows program) and type the following command inside that directory:
jupyter notebook
Your browser should open to a localhost:8888 url. Navigate to the notebooks to run, edit, and save them.
If you are on Windows and didn't install the Git Bash for Windows program, follow these instructions to run the notebooks.
Periodically, I will make changes to the notebooks and add new ones throughout the semester. If you have not installed git, you will need to re-download the zip file. If you have installed git, navigate to your npre247 directory and type the following:
git pull origin master
You may run into errors at this point if you have made edits and not committed
your changes. Or, indeed, if you have made changes to the same lines to which
I have made changes, you may have a conflict. In either case, try to follow the
instructions that git gives you. Usually, it will tell you exactly what to
do. If that's not enough, here is
a great tutorial on using git effectively.
Note: Two notebooks in the finite_diff direcory, regarding finite
differences, are borrowed directly from David Kechison (@ketch) who is the
author of the repository: https://github.com/ketch/finite-difference-course.
These are CC-BY Licensed. You can learn more about his numerical methods
courses from his scipy paper on the topic:
@article{ketcheson2014teaching,
title={Teaching numerical methods with IPython notebooks and inquiry-based learning},
author={Ketcheson, David I},
year={2014},
publisher={SciPy. org}
}Also, one notebook regarding timestepping, by Brian E.J. Rose, is used in the
finite_diff directory. That notebook falls under the MIT license included in
the notebook itself.