Exercise

• Familiarize yourself with Python.
• Use Python (Python, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib) on the departmental machines or...
• Install Python on Ubuntu (apt-get install python-scipy python-matplotlib)
  
• Install Python on OS X
• Install Python on Windows
• You can also install SageMath, which includes everything.
  
• For development environments, you have several choices:
• ipython interactive shell ("apt-get install ipython" on Ubuntu)
• SageMath (download from sagemath.org for all platforms)
• reinteract ("apt-get install reinteract" on Ubuntu)
• DrPython ("apt-get install drpython" on Ubuntu)
• Eclipse PyDev ("apt-get install eclipse-pydev" on Ubuntu)