Programming for the Geosciences

Northern Illinois University

Department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Environment

Author: Dr. Alex Haberlie

Expanded by: Brandon Weart

Table of contents

• Lecture Materials

  • Getting started with Jupyter

  • Syntax and Data Types

    • Primitive Data Types
    • Strings
    • String Methods
    • Indexing
    • Lists
    • Dictionaries

  • Flow Control

    • if / elif / else statements
    • complex if / elif / else statements
    • while loops
    • for loops
    • functions
    • law of large numbers example

  • Classes

    • classes
    • importing

  • numpy

    • numpy basics

  • matplotlib

    • matplotlib basics

  • pandas

    • pandas basics
    • pandas filtering
    • pandas groupby
    • pandas plotting

• Exercises

  • EX1 - In class jupyter notebook exercise
  • EX2 - Basic Syntax
  • EX3 - Primitive Data Types
  • EX4 - Composite Data Types
  • EX5 - if / elif / else statements
  • EX6 - In class functions exercise
  • EX7 - numpy
  • EX8 - list vs. numpy
  • EX9 - pandas filtering
  • EX10 - pandas groupby
  • EX11 - Extra loop practice
  • EX12 - Extra functions practice
  • EX13 - Extra classes practice
  • EX14 - Extra numpy practice
  • EX15 - Extra pandas practice

• Homework

  • HW1 - Humidity Calculations
  • HW2 - Climate Records
  • HW3 - Climate Toolkit
  • HW4 - Observation Station Summary Tool
  • HW5 - Using pandas to answer questions about a dataset