This tutorial is made for scientists who want to learn Python and eventually step from Matlab.

Python is a general programming language with many scientific libraries. It is optimized to be easy to develop in. The same is not true for Matlab which is a domain-specific language.

1. Download this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/pnavaro/python-notebooks.git
   

   or download as a zip file.

   Windows users can install git with conda after its installation in anaconda prompt.

   conda install git
   

2. Install Anaconda (large) or Miniconda (small)

3. Create a new conda environment:

    conda env create -f environment.yml
    source activate osur2017  # Linux OS/X
    activate osur2017         # Windows
   

4. Open notebooks with:

    nbopen 01.Introduction.ipynb
   

Pierre