Benjamin Root writes: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Phil Elson <pelson....@gmail.com> wrote: > > >I am putting together a beginners tutorial proposal that I will submit > soon > > That's great to hear! Are you planning on making the tutorial material > part of mpl's docs or using the content that is already out there? > > It is all new stuff, but I have been taking inspirations from other tutorials > I have seen and said to myself "You are all teaching it wrong!" :-P > > I am ignoring pylab (risky, I know), starting with a *very* basic NumPy > primer, and then moving on to teach matplotlib from the perspective of "here > are what the parts of a plot are called and what they are for, and see what > happens when we put those parts together". It is an ingredients approach, > essentially.
Just for the record: over the last few years I have assembled a document which is more a collection of facts and tricks on Numpy/Scipy/Matplotlib which seems orthogonal to your goals. I am trying to get students in numerical analysis or similar courses operational as quickly as possible. So I am taking pylab as a baseline. (So really a Matlab replacement, although most students will not have had any close contact with Matlab...) Any comments are welcome. Some more nice matplotlib examples are on my wish list, but I have not found time yet... PDF: http://math.jacobs-university.de/oliver/teaching/numpy-intro/numpy-intro.pdf HTML: http://math.jacobs-university.de/oliver/teaching/numpy-intro/numpy-intro/index.html Sources: http://math.jacobs-university.de/oliver/teaching/numpy-intro/ I have been argued back and forth with myself whether I should make it more pythonic (as most of the "official" matplotlib examples are), but then on the ground where class time is precious, I came to appreciate the simplicity of pylab-style code. Regards, Marcel --------------------------------------------------------------------- Marcel Oliver Phone: +49-421-200-3212 School of Engineering and Science Fax: +49-421-200-3103 Jacobs University m.oli...@jacobs-university.de Campus Ring 1 oli...@member.ams.org 28759 Bremen, Germany http://math.jacobs-university.de/oliver --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
