Lab 13: Tuesday May 13, 2014

Announcements

• Homework 4 will be posted soon and due on Tuesday, May 27 at 11pm PDT.
• IPython 2.0 was released in April and has some cool new features. It is not available yet on SageMathCloud. See IPython_notebook for some references.

Demos

• IPython 2.0 with interactive widgets:

  The notebook in $UWHPSC/labs/lab13/widgets_demo.ipynb illustrates this. (Does not run on SMC.)

• Plots you can zoom in on in IPython notebooks: mpld3. The notebook $UWHPSC/labs/lab13/mpld3_demo.ipynb can be run on SMC.

Gamblers’ Ruin problem

• The notebook $UWHPSC/labs/lab13/GamblersRuin.ipynb illustrates in Python a problem that you will tackle in Homework 4 using Fortran with OpenMP and MPI.

There is a quiz for Lab 13