Python for Computing

There are many online resources for learning Python. A good place to start is the documentation provided by the Python Software Foundation, located here: https://www.python.org/doc/

This chapter focuses on how to use Python within a Jupyter notebook. Doing simple calculations in Python is very straightforward. However, once you try to do somethig complex, there are a few tricks to learn. In particular, how to get plots to appear in the notebook, how to do animations, and a few other niceties.