Welcome to Python for Engineers

This is a very short collection of references to help engineers and scientists get started with Python. It was quickly put together for a brief lecture to undergraduate engineerign students, so not very well filled out – but I hope it is useful.

These pages were built from source in this gitHub project Please feel free to use Issues in that project to ask questions, make suggestions, or even submit corrections or additional material via Pull Requests.

Contents

• Installing
  • TL;DR
  • python.org
  • Anaconda / conda
• Getting Started
  • Installing
  • How to run Python Code
  • Basic Python Constructs
  • How to manage your own Code
• The SciPy Stack
  • numpy
  • SciPy
  • pandas
• Python LearningResources:
  • Software Carpentry
  • Online Classes
• Tide Data Analysis
  • Meteorological Tides
  • The Data
  • Parsing the Gezeiten-Kalender Data
  • Reading the measured data