Essential Python for the Physicist
This book introduces the reader with little or no previous computer-programming experience to the Python programming language of interest for a physicist or a natural-sciences student. The book starts with basic interactive Python in order to acquire an i
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Essential Python for the Physicist
Essential Python for the Physicist
Giovanni Moruzzi
Essential Python for the Physicist
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Giovanni Moruzzi Department of Physics “Enrico Fermi” University of Pisa Pisa, Italy
ISBN 978-3-030-45026-7 ISBN 978-3-030-45027-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45027-4
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Preface
Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991. Python is an interpreted language emphasizing code readability: Its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than other languages such as C++ or Java. Python features a dynamic type system and automatic memory management. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including object-oriented, imperative, functional and procedural, and has a very large and comprehensive standard library. The purpose of the present book is to introduce the physics student, or, more generally, a natural science student, to Python. The book requires no previous experience with other programming languages even if, of course, such a previous experience, if present, makes learning Python easier and faster. We start with a brief introduction to the basics of Python programming in interactive mode, then present scripts, or programs, of increasing complexity, and finally reach fundamental computer animation. Special regard is given to simple animations of physical interest. In fact, a great advantage of Python is its being, at least at the moment, the only programming language allowing cross-platform graphics. This means that your programs involving graphics and animation will
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