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# Python for SciComp 2021 planning

## Current summary
Instructors (please sign up here):
- please also add here approximate lengths so that we get an idea of expectations and preparation work, unless we keep times unchanged from last time
- Lessons can be seen here: https://aaltoscicomp.github.io/python-for-scicomp/
- Two names per lesson
- Times include teaching AND exercises

### Schedule with timings in EEST

* M (15m) 10:00: Intro (rkdarst + anyone who wants to come)
* M (30m) 10:15: Jupyter (Jarno, (rkdarst)) 45m, hopefully shorter
. :50 break
* M (60m) 11:00: Numpy (rkdarst, Johan) 60m
. 12:00 break
* M (30m) 12:10: Pandas (Marijn, Jarno) 50m-numpy overtime
~~
* T (30m) 10:00: Pandas (Marijn, Jarno) cont 30m
* T (60m) 10:30: Matplotlib (radovan, Johan) 30m
. 11:00 break
* . 11:10: matplotlib continued 50m
. 12:00 break
3 12:10 matplotlib continued
* T (30m) 12:30: Data formats with pandas (simo, rkdarst) 30
~~
* W (60m) 10:00: Scripts (thomas p, rkdarst) 60m
. 11:00 break
* W (15m) 11:10: Scipy (rkdarst, ...) 20m
* W (30m) 11:30: Library ecosystem (rkdarst, ...) 30m
. 12:00 break
* ? (45m) 12:10: parallel programming (Jarno, rkdarst) 50m
~~
* Th(60m) 10:00: Dependency management (Sabry,..) 60
. 11:00 break
* Th(30m) 11:10: Binder (radovan, ...): 40 min
. 11:50 break
* Th(30m) 12:00: Packaging (Marijn, ...): 30 min instead of 60 min
* . 12:30: Buffer time/ Q&A / panel discussion
* Th(10m) 12:50: Outro

notes:
- library ecosystem: needs improvement, this was criticized last time as not too well prepared (RD: I suggest adding some of "when should you reuse vs when should you re-create") (MvV: I suggest showing off what can be accomplished in a few lines of python code, get people excited about the possibilities of this insane infra)

## Helpers
#### Should we merge the hands-ons Zoom rooms or not? Dependent on the number of helpers?
FI:
NO: Geir, Espen, ?.
SE: Diana, Pavlin, Niharika, Björn

## Detailed schedule of the lessons in EEST
#### Time for hands-ons and breaks to be added as well

### Monday 25 Oct
#### Intro (rkdarst)
* 10:00: Intro (rkdarst + anyone who wants to come)

#### Jupyter (Jarno, (rkdarst))
* 10:15: *add details*
* 10:50 Break

#### Numpy (rkdarst, Johan)
* 11:00 Intro and discussion - why numpy? Demo up till before indexing and slicing. Introduce students to exercise 1 and 2
* 11:15 **Exercise 1 and 2**
* 11:30 Demo till before linear algebra. Introduce exercise 3 and 4
* 11:40 **Exercise 3 and 4**
* 11:55 Concluding discussion
* 12:00 Break

#### Pandas (Marijn, Jarno)
* 12:10 *add details*

### Tuesday 26 Oct

#### Pandas, continued (Marijn, Jarno)
* 10:00 *add details*

#### Matplotlib (Radovan, Johan)
* 11:02 R: Introduction to Matplotlib
* 11:10 J: Demo 'Let us create our first plot'. Introduce exercise Exercise Matplotlib-1
* 11:18 **Exercise Matplotlib-1**
* 11:33 J: Questions and Matplotlib has two different interfaces.
* 11:38 R: Styling
* 11:40 R: Introduce Exercises: Styling and customization. Suggest to students to either do Exercise Customization-1, and -2 or the freer format Exercise Customization-3.
* 11:45 **Exercise Customization-1, -2, -3**
* 12:00 Break
* 12:10 R: Questions and Demo exercise 3
* 12:18 R: Concluding discussion
* 12:20 Next lesson

#### Data formats with pandas (simo, ...)
* 12:10 *add details*

### Wednesday 27 Oct

### Thursday 28 Oct

## Meeting (next)

## Meeting 2021-08-??

- The old course page was:
https://scicomp.aalto.fi/training/scip/python-for-scicomp/
**Last year we had:**
- Fri 11.sep, 15:30-16:30 Installation help session
- Mon 14.sep, 10:00-13:00 (Jupyter, numpy, matplotlib)
- Wed 16.sep, 10:00-13:00 (scripts, packaging)
- Mon 21.sep, 10:00-13:00 (scipy, pandas)
- Wed 23.sep, 10:00-13:00 (library ecosystem, dependencies, Binder)

- The material is at:
https://aaltoscicomp.github.io/python-for-scicomp/

- Dates
- Restrictions
- not september or first week of November
- 4 Oct 2021(Mon) 8 Oct 2021 (Fri) Oslo https://publicholidays.no/school-holidays/oslo/
- 1 Nov 2021(Mon) 5 Nov 2021(Fri) Stockholm https://publicholidays.se/school-holidays/stockholm/
- 18 Oct 2021(Mon) 22 Oct 2021(Fri) Copenhagen https://publicholidays.dk/school-holidays/copenhagen/
- 18 October 2021 (Mon) - 22 October 2021 (Fri) Helsinki https://www.hel.fi/helsinki/en/childhood-and-education/loma-ajat
- What about overlap with a CR workshop?
- Proposal:
- Weeks 41 and 43 (11,25.october) +1
- Weeks 40 and 41 (4,11.october) +1
- Weeks 45 and 46 (8,15.november)
- Week 40 (starting oct 4)
- Week 41 (starting Oct 11?) +1,+1 RB
- **Week 43 (Starting Oct 25)+1 +1,+1, RB** DECISION
- Installation friday week before?
- Tue26-Fri29?
- **Mon25-Thu28?**
- **Morning (9-12 CET)?**
- Afternoon (12-15 CET)?

- General format
- Stream as primary way to attend (like HPC kickstart)
- Each site makes own registration and decides mechanics (helpers, online or in-person)
- CR chat for coordination
- Registration
- Common CodeRefinery indico
- Think about breakout room strategy: on demand

- Partners
- Write your name here if you want to take part
- should we make a new CR stream?
- Contact ENCCS
- Nordic carpentries meeting/email list

- Audience
- How do we define our audience?

- Instructors
- Anyone already want to volunteer to teach?

- Help
- [x] Set up Indico/aalto registration ==EG+DP+DI==
- [x] Set up course webpage ==RD/EG==
- [ ] Revise material ==RD+RB+?==
- [x] Help find instructors ==EG+?==
- [ ] Instructor training and mentoring
- [ ] HackMD helpers
- [ ] HackMD - setup, archival.
- [ ] Expert helpers in general
- [ ] Local coordination
- [ ] Zoom/Twitch director(s)

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# Emails to participants

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Strategy:
- Affiliated organizations == FCCI, NRIS, UPPSALA+KTH
- users from non affiliated organizations do not receive a zoom link and do not receive a hackmd link. They will receive a "public" hackmd on the day of the workshop (separated from the "affiliated" hackmd)
- users from affiliated organizations will receive a zoom link and a hackmd. It can be one hackMD for all affiliated organizations OR independent hackMDs for each country.
- Two emails to users:
- a "confirmation email" sent as soon as they register (we need this at Aalto because we do not have automatic confirmation emails)
- a "reminder email" with the actual zoom+hackMD links for the affiliated users
- Drafts of the emails for Aalto-registered participants here below, the situation for other sites is easier as they do not have non-affiliated users.
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## Emails to users from Aalto registration form
### 1. Confirmation email sent more than 2 days before the workshop

#### 1.1 Email to users not belonging to affiliated organisations

Subject: Welcome to "Python for Scientific Computing" 25-28/October twitch.tv/coderefinery

Hello!

Thank you for registering for "Python for Scientific Computing" 25-28/October.

**Before the workshop**
Please make sure you have a working python installation on your computer. Follow instructions at https://aaltoscicomp.github.io/python-for-scicomp/installation/

**During the workshop**
Please connect with your browser to https://twitch.tv/coderefinery on 25-28 October at 09:50 EEST (click here to convert it to your timezone https://arewemeetingyet.com/Helsinki/2021-10-25/10:00/Python%20for%20Scientific%20Computing ).

**Peer learning**
We encourage **peer learning**: try watching the stream with your colleagues so you can work together on the exercises and help each other. If you are not sharing the same physical space, you can create a zoom room or google hangout for yourselves and watch the stream together. It's like watching TV together while writing some Python code!

**Support**
Unfortunately we do not have the resources to provide hands-on support for you, as you are not affiliated with our partner organisations in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. However, we are happy to get all your questions during the workshop via HackMD (instructions later). Please note that this workshop will not issue any certificate of attendance or study credits.

You will receive an email reminder on the day before the workshop with further instructions if needed.

If you need to contact us for any reason, please email [e-mail]

#### 1.2 Email to users belonging to affiliated organisations

*note: the email below is written for the Finnish audience*

Subject: Welcome to "Python for Scientific Computing" 25-28/October twitch.tv/coderefinery

Hello!

Thank you for registering for "Python for Scientific Computing" 25-28/October.

**Before the workshop**
Please make sure you have a working python installation on your computer. Follow instructions at https://aaltoscicomp.github.io/python-for-scicomp/installation/

**During the workshop**
Please connect with your browser to https://twitch.tv/coderefinery on 25-28 October at 09:50 EEST.

**Peer learning**
We encourage **peer learning**: We will provide you with a zoom link so that you can watch the stream with your colleagues and get live help when you are blocked during the practical exercises. Joining the zoom is not mandatory, the course will be streamed only via twitch and there will be other channels for asking questions and help.

You will receive an email reminder on the day before the workshop with further instructions.

**Support**
If you are having troubles with the python installation, please join our Aalto Scientific Computing daily zoom garage at 13:00 https://scicomp.aalto.fi/help/garage/ If you need support during the event, please join the zoom link that will be sent to you the day before the workshop. Please note that this workshop will not issue any certificate of attendance or study credits.

If you need to contact us for any reason, please email [e-mail]

### 2. Reminder email one day before the workshop

#### 2.1 Email to users not belonging to affiliated organisations

Hello!

This is a reminder that the online course "Python for Scientific Computing" will start tomorrow at 09:50 EEST (click here to convert it to your timezone https://arewemeetingyet.com/Helsinki/2021-10-25/10:00/Python%20for%20Scientific%20Computing )

The course will be streamed on Twitch.tv. Please connect with your browser to https://twitch.tv/coderefinery

If you have not done it yet, please make sure you have a working Python installation on your computer https://aaltoscicomp.github.io/python-for-scicomp/installation/

**Peer learning**
We encourage **peer learning**: try watching the stream with your colleagues so you can work together on the exercises and help each other. If you are not sharing the same physical space, you can create a zoom room or google hangout for yourselves and watch the stream together. It's like watching TV together while writing some Python code!

**Support**
Unfortunately we do not have the resources to provide hands-on support for you, as you are not affiliated with our partner organisations in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. However, we are happy to get all your questions during the workshop via HackMD at this url https://scicomp.aalto.fi/python-notes. HackMD is a text editor that allows all of us to edit it at the same time. It is more flexible than a chat and can be used to communicate your questions or issues while you are watching the live stream.

Please note that this workshop will not issue any certificate of attendance or study credits. If you need to contact us for any reason, please email [e-mail]

#### 2.2 Email to users belonging to affiliated organisations

*the email below is written for our Finnish audience*

Hello!

This is a reminder that the online course "Python for Scientific Computing" will start tomorrow Monday 25th October at 09:50 (Finnish timezone). The course will be streamed on Twitch.tv. Please connect with your browser to https://twitch.tv/coderefinery at 9:50.

During the course we will use HackMD to ask/answer questions at this url https://scicomp.aalto.fi/python-notes

HackMD is a text editor that allows all of us to edit it at the same time. It is more flexible than a chat and can be used to communicate your questions or issues while you are watching the live stream.

Furthermore, if you wish to learn with your peers, here is the zoom link for participants affiliated with a research institution in Finland: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/69608324491. You can join the zoom session during the streaming to work together with your colleagues in a breakout room or to ask for help from one of our helpers. Joining the zoom is not mandatory for enjoying the full course experience. Please upgrade to the latest version of zoom to make sure you can freely join your favourite breakout room.

Finally, if you have not done it yet, please make sure you have a working Python installation on your computer https://aaltoscicomp.github.io/python-for-scicomp/installation/

Please note that this workshop will not issue any certificate of attendance or study credits. If you need to contact us for any reason, please email [e-mail].

## Reminder for affiliated without zoom

Hello!

This is a reminder that the online course "Python for Scientific Computing" will start tomorrow Monday 25th October at 09:50 (Finnish timezone). The course will be streamed on Twitch.tv. Please connect with your browser to https://twitch.tv/coderefinery at 9:50.

During the course we will use HackMD to ask/answer questions at this url https://scicomp.aalto.fi/python-notes

HackMD is a text editor that allows all of us to edit it at the same time. It is more flexible than a chat and can be used to communicate your questions or issues while you are watching the live stream.

Finally, if you have not done it yet, please make sure you have a working Python installation on your computer https://aaltoscicomp.github.io/python-for-scicomp/installation/

Please note that this workshop will not issue any certificate of attendance or study credits. If you need to contact us for any reason, please email [e-mail].

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# Registrations

What do you wish to learn? Answers here https://hackmd.io/9etfYsxCTtKLoFWWHxDxlA

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# Email post day 1

Hello

Today we had the first day of "Python for Scientific Computing" live course on twitch.tv.

If you feel you need to revisit some of today's lectures, you can find all the videos from day 1 on te same Twitch link under "Recent broadcasts" https://www.twitch.tv/coderefinery

And the corresponding course material at https://aaltoscicomp.github.io/python-for-scicomp/

Tomorrow we wil continue with "pandas", plot some nice graphs with "matplotlib" and go a bit deeper on data formats especially useful in data science.

See you tomorrow on https://www.twitch.tv/coderefinery at 9:50 EEST Finnish time (click here to convert it to your timezone https://arewemeetingyet.com/Helsinki/2021-10-26/10:00/Python%20for%20Scientific%20Computing%20Day%202)!

If you need to contact us for any reason, please email [e-mail]. If you do not want to receive these emails anymore, just answer to this email and let us know.

best regards
CodeRefinery & Aalto Scientific Computing

Ps: this course is brought to you by CodeRefinery and Aalto Scientific Computing along with organisers and collaborators from various research organisations in Northern Europe. If you like what we do, we recommend joining our CodeRefinery email list https://tinyletter.com/coderefinery and the Aalto Scientific Computing one https://scicomp.aalto.fi/training/scicomp-announcements-maillist/

You can also follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/coderefine + https://twitter.com/SciCompAalto and Mastodon at:

## email post day 2&3

Hello!

Today we had the second day of "Python for Scientific Computing" live course on twitch.tv. From tomorrow things gets more interesting also for advanced python coders: If you know Python well but don't have experience turning your code into a reusable thing/package/tool, days 3-4 are for you!

If you feel you need to revisit some of today's lectures, you can find all the videos from day 1 & 2 on YouTube at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZLVmS9rf3nOS7bHNmbcDoyTnMYaz_TJW

The archived HackMD with your questions and answers is at:
https://hackmd.io/@coderefinery/python2021archive

The corresponding course material at https://aaltoscicomp.github.io/python-for-scicomp/

See you tomorrow on https://www.twitch.tv/coderefinery at 9:50 EEST Finnish time (click here to convert it to your timezone https://arewemeetingyet.com/Helsinki/2021-10-27/10:00/Python%20for%20Scientific%20Computing%20Day%203)!

If you need to contact us for any reason, please email [e-mail].

best regards
Aalto Scientific Computing

Ps: this course is brought to you by CodeRefinery and Aalto Scientific Computing along with organisers and collaborators from various research organisations in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. If you like what we do, we recommend joining our CodeRefinery email list https://tinyletter.com/coderefinery and the Aalto Scientific Computing one https://scicomp.aalto.fi/training/scicomp-announcements-maillist/

You can also follow us on twitter at https://twitter.com/coderefine and https://twitter.com/SciCompAalto

# email post all

Hello!

"Python for Scientific Computing" is over, thank you for joining us and for the valuable feedback!

If you feel you need to revisit the lectures, you can find all the videos on YouTube at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZLVmS9rf3nOS7bHNmbcDoyTnMYaz_TJW

The archived HackMD with your questions and answers is at:
https://hackmd.io/@coderefinery/python2021archive

The corresponding course material at https://aaltoscicomp.github.io/python-for-scicomp/

If you want to join our community, we recommend

- CodeRefinery https://coderefinery.org/get-involved/
- CodeRefinery community calls https://coderefinery.org/about/community-call/
- CodeRefinery chat https://coderefinery.zulipchat.com

(especially the help section https://coderefinery.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/141114-help)

Also: Nordic-RSE weekly coffee break is a good point to start https://nordic-rse.org/communities/coffeebreak/#weekly-virtual-coffee-break

We recommend joining our CodeRefinery email list https://tinyletter.com/coderefinery and the Aalto Scientific Computing one https://scicomp.aalto.fi/training/scicomp-announcements-maillist/

You can also follow us on twitter at https://twitter.com/coderefine and https://twitter.com/SciCompAalto

best regards

## Course feedback email

Hello!

you are receiving this email becase you were registered for the "Python for Scientific Computing 2021" online course.

Could you answer a short questionnaire about the course? It will not take more than 2 minutes. Please answer also if you did not attend, but had time to check the materials or videos.

https://forms.gle/LvhFK47C7xgf99nH8

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Other courses at Aalto available for everyone:
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Thank you so much for your feedback!
Have a great November

Aalto Scientific Computing