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Eike Welk wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Saturday March 27 2010 16:21:26 AG wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I apologise in advance for the vagueness of this query, but I am looking
for a decent modern introduction to modelling using Python.
Specifically, I want something that is a good introduction (i.e. doesn't
expect one to already be a maths/ statistics or a programming guru) and
that has an ecology/ environmental science orientation.
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You should look at the book "Python Scripting for Computational Science" by
Hans Petter Langtangen:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.amazon.com/Python-Scripting-Computational-Science">http://www.amazon.com/Python-Scripting-Computational-Science</a>-
Engineering/dp/3540435085
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=YEoiYr4H2A0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=">http://books.google.com/books?id=YEoiYr4H2A0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=</a>"Python+Scripting+for+Computational+Science"&source=bl&ots=ovp_JKREiY&sig=tJkigCLDqS6voOOjmL4xDxw0roM&hl=en&ei=OlWvS8PmE4r94Aa42vzgDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=&f=false
It is an introduction to the Python language, and to a big number of tools for
numerical computations. The book assumes that you have already some practice
in writing computer programs.
The book is not oriented towards ecology, the examples are from mechanical
engineering.
The book is however a bit dated, it's from 2004. Therefore many examples will
need to be slightly altered to work with the current versions of the libraries
that they use.
Alternatively you could ask your question on the Numpy/Scipy mailing lists.
These lists are frequented by scientists that use Python for their
computations.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.scipy.org/Mailing_Lists">http://www.scipy.org/Mailing_Lists</a>
Eike.
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Now that's looking very much along the lines of what I had in mind
Eike. Very pricey ... might have to sit on that one for a while and
scout around for a used copy. I can certainly use the on-line resource
for as many pages as it allows one to access until I either find a
cheaper version or perhaps win a lottery!!<br>
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But, yep, this looks like what I had in mind - so anything else like
this would be good as well.<br>
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Cheers<br>
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AG<br>
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