Tools, Tips and Tricks

Working Group Tools, Tips and Tricks

Formerly known as: The Python Workshop.

Date/Time	Talk details
03/04/2024 10:30 am - 11:30 am	Marc-Olivier Buob - C Room 4B01, Palaiseau
20/03/2024 10:30 am - 11:30 am	Fabien Mathieu - Double Feature: IPyWidgets + Using LLM Room 4B01, Palaiseau
21/02/2024 10:30 am - 11:30 am	Leonardo Linguaglossa - A visual journey to convey complex messages through MAThematical ANIMation - manim Room 4B01, Palaiseau
31/01/2024 10:30 am - 11:30 am	Francesca Bassi - Everyone procrastinates: a Beamer demo Room 4B01, Palaiseau
10/01/2024 10:30 am - 11:30 am	Rémi Varloot - D3.js tutorial: animating a card game Room 4A113, Palaiseau
06/12/2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am	Marc-Olivier Buob - APT: managing software under Debian-based GNU/Linux distributions Room 4B01, Palaiseau
15/11/2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am	Fabien Mathieu - Developing Python packages with Poetry and Package Helper 3 Salle 4B01, Palaiseau
18/10/2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am	Emma Caizergues - Tikz introduction: how to draw a platypus Room 4A113, Palaiseau
10/05/2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am	Guillaume Nibert - Proving and analysing security protocols with Scyther Room 4B01, Palaiseau
19/04/2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am	François Durand - A Bit of Gymnastics in Python Room 4B01, Palaiseau

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Presentation

Topic: Tools, tips and tricks for researchers in mathematics and computer science.

Audience: The group “Tools, Tips and Tricks” is intended for researchers in mathematics and computer science, but anyone can attend online.

Practical details: The sessions are held every third Wednesday from 10:30 am to 11:30 pm (Central European Summer Time), in the premises of the Lincs and online. To receive the invitations, register to the mailing list. Videos, slides and notebooks of previous sessions are on the website.

Coordinator: François Durand (fradurand@gmail.com).

Description:

Historically, this working group was dedicated to sharing knowledge about the Python language. Nowadays, while we keep an important focus on Python, we also discuss other tools and practices: other programming languages, operating systems, software, etc. In the future, we could also touch non-computer topics, such as research methodology, efficient bibliography, etc.

In the past sessions, due to the exclusively-Python-oriented aspect of the group, we covered a lot of topics in Python, such as:

Python basics: introduction to Python (1, 2, 3), Python 101, developping with style, collections, dictionaries, iterators.
Design patterns: architectural considerations (1, 2), abstract classes, clean code, building a research-oriented system, object-oriented programming, SOLID principles.
Scientific packages: pandas, seaborn, tikzplotlib, pytorch, vis.js network, huggingface, Gym and Stable Baselines, CVXPY, Petting Zoo, Tree-sitter, Scyther.
Other packages: numba, cherrypy, joblib, scrapy, pathlib, gzip, zipfile, tempfile, requests, beautifulsoup, selenium, pygame, simpy, sockets (1, 2), fastcore, asyncio (1, 2), threads.
Development environment: jupyter notebook (1, 2), pycharm, conda, profiling.
Production tools: packaging (1, 2), documentation, testing (1, 2), git, codecov, cloud solutions, pyinstaller, containers.

But we also covered other topics, such as:

As a speaker:

Do not hesitate to start from an online tutorial or documentation and to prepare a digest of it.
You can prepare a lecture, a practical work session, or a mix of the two.
Please try to provide code files if relevant.