Introduction to Scientific Programming with Python

Joakim Sundnes is Chief Research Scientist at Simula Research Laboratory and teaches undergraduate programming at the University of Oslo. His research is in scientific computing and computational science, mostly focused on biomechanics and computational physiology, and involves extensive programming in Python and other languages. For the last five years he has been responsible for the main introductory programming class for natural science students at the University of Oslo, and he has also taught multiple graduate courses in computational physiology and applied mathematics.

• Getting started with Python.- Computing with formulas.- Loops and lists.- Functions and branching.- User input and error handling.- Arrays and plotting.- Dictionaries and strings.- Classes.- Object-oriented programming.