Python Scripting for Computational Science (Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, 3) 3rd Edition

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With a primary focus on examples and applications of relevance to computational scientists, this brilliantly useful book shows computational scientists how to develop tailored, flexible, and human-efficient working environments built from small scripts written in the easy-to-learn, high-level Python language. All the tools and examples in this book are open source codes. This third edition features lots of new material. It is also released after a comprehensive reorganization of the text. The author has inserted improved examples and tools and updated information, as well as correcting any errors that crept in to the first imprint.

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"This book addresses primarily a CSE (computational science and engineering) audience. … gives a clear and detailed account on the ways in which the surprisingly powerful Python language may aid the CSE community." (H. Muthsam, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Vol. 151 (4), 2007)

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 3540739157
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer; 3rd edition (December 11, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 782 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9783540739159
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3540739159
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.94 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.37 x 1.3 x 9.45 inches

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pafluxa

A must have if you use python for scientific purposes.

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2013

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This book is fantastic. The first third is dedicated to basic Numpy and "daily" operations that engineers and scientists encounter when working with Python, so it resembles a lot to any Numpy/Python book. Nothing "new".

The other third, however, is dedicated to GUI programming and integration with Scientific Software. It is full of very useful examples that are not difficult to replicate/modify for your needs.

It also addresses more advanced GUI programming using Canvas, C/C++ integration, efficiency, and other subjects I haven't read yet. If you ask me, it has everything I need. And man, when you find yourself without internet connection and *need* to make something work, books can really save you. True story.

5 stars for this one.

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Patrick Faith

a solid reference

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2010

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I bought this book, just for a couple of the chapters, but i found myself using more of this book then i expected, and reading all the chapters(even the fortran stuff). I found this book better then all my other "scientific python" books, in that my other books really built toyish apps. This book is meant for people doing production computational science work in python. It doesn't have much btw on super computer's programming and python, aside from a lot on how to integrate c/c++/fortan libraries(i.e. anyone doing major work in python probably is integrating to things like Tesla/Hadoop/mpi ... etc ... and the book didn't go to that level).

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Excellent Text and Reference!

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2010

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As an intermediate Python programmer, this excellent book has become my go to reference for useful intermediate and advanced techniques that I can locate and learn quickly. The writing is clear and not overly verbose. In addition to a wide array of numerical and scientific examples, the book is helpful for a wide range of programming issues, such as gluing together disparate legacy applications, interfacing to C++, regression testing numerical code, building GUI's, web programming, etc.

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John K

A really great reference

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2016

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Great reference and well written with excellent examples.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2018

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Exactly what i needed and help me out.

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Wolves Zhao

Great

Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2014

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The book is great

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DickieCoon

Outstanding introduction to Python and Numpy

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2010

I've bought what seems to (my wife) be every Python book out there and I can't tell you how sick I am of spam, spam, spam code! (trivial and obfuscated Python code examples with a common theme focused around one Monty Python skit or another...) Spam code seems to prevail in other Python books.

Here finally is a book with code examples that are very clear, are immediately useful to the serious programmer and filled with real life discourse on relative performance differences between Python and other languages that have a reputation for speed. There are clear examples of 'number crunching', producing images and even video animations, hooks into other scientific packages such as MathLab, etc.

If you are interested in really learning Python, want to come away from an hour or twos worth of coding experience with a module or two that you can use tomorrow and are not interested in code examples extolling Monty Python silliness, then this is the book for you.

While this book is about twice as expensive as many of my other Python books, I wish I had purchased this one first. Even though I've been using Python, seemingly every day, for two years, I kept finding nuggets in this book with what seemed to be every turn of the page. My focus right now is processing extremely large data sets of binary data but I'll soon be looking at image processing and I know I'll be reaching for this book over and over again. Don't hesitate! Just buy the book!

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G. Jaouen

*The* reference for folks who work with Matlab

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2009

I'm giving this book five stars because it was basically written for me. I don't mean that literally, of course. I say that because the usual methods of googling for answers and reading the manual do not work when you are trying to push the limits of what a tool is capable of doing. I do numerical computations for a variety of things -- finding patterns in large data sets, automating data collection and analysis, converting raw serial output into convenient CSV, plotting multidimensional datasets etc. Over the years, I have collected a large number of productivity habits with Matlab, which allows me to do ridiculously convoluted things in a short period of time. You just have to read the introduction of any Python manual to understand why I am switching from Matlab to Python. The problem is -- what will replace all these productivity habits? They need to be replaced with "Pythonic" habits, something that can take years of practice.

The beauty about Langtangen's book is that it runs through every one of those techniques. Instead of giving a basic example (what your google search would have provided) or a complete list of, ahem, useless techniques (what the manual would have provided), you get exactly what a seasoned data analyst needs to know to get moving with state-of-the-art commands. The author also discusses optimizations and alternatives in each chapter.

The book is also the best source for explaining *why* NumPy should be used by people working with large datasets. Folks love to create toolkits for Python, but some of these are a list of non-intuitive shortcuts that don't provide a substantial improvement over basic Python. Langtangen goes through the pain of explaining the benefits of the package (chapter 4.1.4), so that you can decide for yourself if NumPy is useful for your application.

I will not comment on the parts of the book that deal with C and FORTRAN integration because I leave that to more able programmers. I also will not comment on the extensive GUI building chapters because I do not build GUIs. I will point out, though, that I have derived full value out of this book simply by reading, and re-reading chapters 2, 3, 4 and 8. Some will argue that there is too much "basic Python" in these chapters for the whole to be considered advanced computational science -- my opinion is that even when the author describes "basic Python", his examples and intuition make it so that even one who has read a couple of reference books cover-to-cover will learn something about using "basic Python" to perform numerical analysis in a more efficient way. In fact, the book is a testament to doing really convoluted things in a really compact and elegant manner!

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2018

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I don't think it is a right choice for a beginner like me. In fact, I don't think the chapters are well organised and the examples for practice are not good enough.

RiK0

Interessante, mah

Reviewed in Italy on April 21, 2015

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Il libro e' interessante: sono molti gli argomenti trattati su come scrivere codice numerico, varie librerie sia in Python sia per legare Python a Fortran o C. Purtroppo il codice usa idiomi in generale vecchi e relativamente fuori standard, sembra davvero codice scritto da qualcuno che di mestiere fa altro. Il che fa pensare che questo libro sia pensato per chi di mestiere fa altro (come prevedibile dal titolo). Per queste persone vale sicuramente la pena di essere preso per la carrellata di tecnologie di interesse che fa. Purtroppo tende a sviluppare una libreria custom di utilita' per fare esempi e simili, il che e' di utilita' limitata per chi poi il codice lo deve scrivere e usare (tipicamente una libreria introdotta in un libro e non affermatasi per selezione naturale della comunita' open source e' parecchio sotto gli standard di quello che si trova in giro).

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manuel

Enlaces a las descargas de los programas no funcionan

Reviewed in Spain on December 31, 2018

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Debido a lo cual el libro se convierte en muy poco util y he tenido, muy a mi pesar, que devolverlo

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Loïc

Un des meilleurs bouquins sur les usages scientifiques avancés de python, tout en permettant une initiation aux débutants

Reviewed in France on May 4, 2013

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Un des meilleurs bouquins sur les usages scientifiques avancés de python, tout en permettant une initiation aux débutants.

Et je compare avec 8 autres titres (dont peu en français d'un niveau valable), sans compter 4 titres supplémentaires sur les traitements geospatial, texte, PyQt, matplotlib et visualisation scientifique en général.

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