General Information

The main purpose of the group is to:

• Show tools and applications that are useful for research
• Learn how to apply such tools to projects, especially using Python
• Teach good coding practices
• Create a space where one can ask questions and easily get help from students, post-docs, and faculty
• Improve your coding skills, and have fun while doign it!

The Github repository for this class is: https://tinyurl.com/vandycomp

We will meet every Monday at 11am in SC 6322 (click to add a reminder)

Slack Information

We will be using Slack to communicate ideas, resources, changes to the schedule, etc. Make sure to download the app, since it makes it easier to know what's happening.

• Slack website: https://https://vandyastroseminar.slack.com
• Team Name: vandy_astro_seminar
• Email address: You can use any email address. You just need to sign up to get an invite.
• Goole Spreadsheet: Please fill out the list with your info: https://goo.gl/y2ammQ
• Slack App: You can download the Slack app for your computer/phone here.

Schedule - Spring 2017

The following is the schedule for the Spring 2017 semester (subject to change).

You can access to the iPython notebooks interactively by clicking here:

Other links

General

• Vanderbilt University
• Vanderbilt Astronomy Group

Version Control

• Github website
• Github Guides & Tutorials
• Git tutorials & training by Atlassian

Coding

• Python course by Codecademy
• Learn Python the Hard Way - Free online course on Python
• AstroML: Machine Learning and Data Mining for Astronomy

LaTeX

• Learn LaTeX in 30 minutes

Papers

• "Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing" by Greg Wilson et al. (2016)
• "Ten Simple Rules for Making Research Software More Robust" by Morgan Taschuk et al. (2017)
• Interactive Notebooks: Sharing the Code by Helen Shen