Introduction to Python Programming with Applications to Astrophysics

Course Code

ASTR 20500 91

Course Description

This course is intended for students who are planning to major in Astrophysics to introduce them to programming using Python. It will review basic code elements and data structures commonly used in Python and introduce Python libraries, such as numpy and scipy, and the concepts of vector operations that greatly aid scientific computations with Python. Plotting graphs and data using Matplotlib library will also be introduced.

Course Criteria

Instructor(s)

Rohan Gupta

¹ UChicago students can self-register.

² Visiting students and pre-college students apply through the same application.