Tools, Tips and Tricks

Working Group Tools, Tips and Tricks

Formerly known as: The Python Workshop.

Date/Time	Talk details
19/04/2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am	François Durand - A Bit of Gymnastics in Python Room 4B01, Palaiseau
01/03/2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am	Maxime Mouchet - Parse and analyze source codes with Tree-sitter Room 4B01, Palaiseau
15/02/2023 11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Guillaume Nibert - Note taking and knowledge management with Obsidian.md and Zotero Room 4B01, Palaiseau
25/01/2023 11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Rémi Varloot - Hands-on JavaScript Telecom Paris, 4A113 (4th floor), Palaiseau
14/12/2022 11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Rémi Varloot - What is JavaScript? Telecom Paris, Palaiseau
16/11/2022 11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Claire Bizon Monroc - Introduction to Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Petting Zoo Telecom Paris, Palaiseau
26/10/2022 11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Marc-Olivier Buob - Concurrent Programming in Python3 Using Asyncio Telecom Paris, Palaiseau
05/10/2022 11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Maxime Mouchet - Distributed Task Processing with GNU Parallel Room 4A467 – Telecom Paris, Palaiseau
08/06/2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Maxime Elkael - Easy Convex Optimization in Python with CVXPY Telecom Paris, Palaiseau
04/05/2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Claire Bizon Monroc - Introduction to Gym and Stable Baselines for reinforcement learning Paris-Rennes Room (EIT Digital), 75013 Paris

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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.