(Ebook) Python for Astronomers: An Introduction to Scientific Computing 3rd Edition by Imad Pasha, Chris Agostino

(Ebook) Python for Astronomers: An Introduction to Scientific Computing 3rd Edition by Imad Pasha, Chris Agostino

This text is designed to be an introduction to the Python programming language — which is nowused nearly ubiquitously in astronomy — with applications to the types of tasks an undergraduate (orbeginning graduate student) might have to tackle. It is not, in any way, meant to be comprehensive;my focus is on bringing you up to speed as efficiently and quickly as possible. This text might haveuseful information for those with a working knowledge of Python outside of a research setting, butis primarily designed for those with no prior programming experience. By the end of this text, Ihope to have shared enough to make you feel comfortable taking the first steps into research-typeproblems (of which this book will contain several examples), whether in an astronomy course, aresearch internship, or on-campus research.