COMP4031 Scientific computing

Durham University Michaelmas term 2019

• Lectures: Mondays 11:00 in E245.
• Office hours: Tuesdays 12:00-13:00 (or via email).

Running the notebooks

Notebooks from class, with questions to answer and things to try are in the material subdirectory.

To install the necessary software, I recommend doing so in a Python virtual environment. We need Python3. Doing something like:

$ python3 -m venv sci-comp
$ . sci-comp/bin/activate # Or other script if you use a different shell
$ pip install numpy scipy pandas ipython jupyter
$ cd path/to/repo/material
$ jupyter notebook

Will pop up a browser window.

If this results in an AssertionError (see jupyter/notebook#4937), try installing an older version of jupyter-client in the virtual environment:

$ pip install jupyter-client==5.3.1