As part of the Advanced Computational Methods 2 module, Craig started the presentation by showing the capabilities of Reveal.JS such as themes, transitions and the ability to work with Markdown or use dynamic graphs such as those produced by D3.js. Kostas then went on to live-code the skeleton html file …
As part of the student-led workshops of Advanced Computational Methods II module, NGCM students Gabriele Boschetto and Alejandra Vergara prepared a 2-hours workshop focused on the introduction to LaTeX and BibTeX . LaTeX is a typesetting system that produces professional documents with high typographical quality and BibTeX is a powerful …
As part of the Advanced Computational Methods 2 module, iPhD students at NGCM CdT Emanuele Zappia and Hossam Ragheb delivered an introduction to the overall idea of computing with units approach in a form of a workshop. Specifically, the workshop focused on the Python library Pint. In the first part, …
As part of the Advanced Computational Methods 2 module, Ashley Setter and Thorsten Wittemeier gave an introduction to Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) with OpenSCAD. A complete blog post accompanying this session is provided here. Ash started by giving a general introduction to CSG. Constructive solid geometry is an approach to …
As part of the Advanced Computational Methods 2 module, Hans Fangohr started with an introduction to modern task management workflows such as Getting Things Done and Inbox zero. The slides are available. The session was open to all students at the University. In the second part of the sessions, students …
This post follows after a seminar by Dr Hans Fangohr covering the usage of pelican and ReStructuredText to edit and create posts on the NGCM Blog. This post covers how to install pelican and set things up in OS X so that you can add posts to the NGCM blog. …
A 5-day intensive course on the foundations of Python was delivered by Dr Jacek Generowicz from 28 September to 2 October 2015, as joint training activity for the Centres for Doctoral Training in Complex Systems Simulations and Next Generation Computational Modelling A naive reading of the list of topics could …
As part of the professional skills training, Dr Ian Hawke started the series of workshops by introducing the Git version control system. Git has become the de-facto standard in version control, and the NGCM doctoral students are introduced to it on the very first day in semester 1 of their …
The NGCM programming primer is the first experience of each new cohort entering into the CDT. It‘s a 35-hour intensive Python course ran by Hans Fangohr, the director of the NGCM. Designed to get everyone ready for the first year of taught study. The course consists of taught informal lectures …
As part of the NGCM Summer Academy I took part in a three day workshop which was lead by Min RK one of the core developers of both IPython and Project Jupyter. To avoid confusion it should be noted that Jupyter is the new incarnation of what was known as …