A. Basics exercises

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Scientific computing practises

Question 1

Which of the following you should do to follow the good enough computing practises? (Hint: There are 4 correct answers)

Record the steps of data processing

Version control your whole project

Write a README file

Separate source code and compiled code into src and bin directories.

Comment out lines in code to modify program behaviour

Find libraries to make them do part of your work.

Computer set up

Question 1

You should have set up your computer for scientific work. Open terminal and run echo $SHELL. What does this print?

Question 2

Working on your terminal, verify your git version by running git --version . What does it print?

Question 3

Verify your Python version by typing in your terminal python3 -V or python -V. What does it print?

Question 4

Verify your Jupyter Lab version by typing jupyter-lab --version. What does it print? Hint: we expect and recommend most recent versions

Question 5

Now verify your NumPy installation. You can use for example python -c "import numpy; print(numpy.__version__)" or if you use NumPy from Anaconda you can type conda list numpy. What is your NumPy version? Note: You do not necessarily need NumPy for the exercises but it is a good tool to have installed anyway.

Question 6

Verify also your Matplotlib installation by executing python -c "import matplotlib; print(matplotlib.__version__)" Note: You do not necessarily need Matplotlib for the exercises but it is a good tool to have installed anyway.

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