CS 323E Elements of Scientific Programming (Spring 2025)

Course Related Links

• Syllabus
• Class Notes
• Course Schedule

Data Science in Python

• Google CoLab
• Miniconda Installation
• Jupyter Notebook Tutorial
• Documentation on Jupyter Notebook
• Tutorial on Markdown
• MatPlotLib
• Short Tutorial on MatPlotLib
• NumPy
• Quick Start to NumPy
• SciPy
• SciPy Tutorial
• Python Pandas
• Tutorial on Pandas
• SymPy
• Tutorial on SymPy

Data Science Cheat Sheets

• MatPlotLib Beginner Handout
• MatPlotLib Intermediate Handout
• Tips on MatPlotLib
• MatPlotLib Cheat Sheet
• Notes on Pandas
• NumPy Notes I
• NumPy Notes II
• Notes on Seaborn

Writing Tools

• Learn LaTeX
• LaTeX Tutorial
• LaTeX for Beginners
• Markdown Language

Research Tools

• Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
• MathSciNet
• YT Visualization Tool
• Visualization in Astronomy

Python Links

• Writing Your First Python Program
• Lecture Notes on Python
• Lecture Notes on SQL
• Python Programming Language
• Python Reference Manual
• Python for Astronomers
• TkInter: Python GUI Package

Python Tutorials

• Official Python Tutorial
• Dive Into Python
• Think Like a Computer Scientist

Programming Challenges

• Coding Bat
• Kattis
• Leet Code
• Geeks for Geeks
• Computing Olympiad
• Python Challenge
• Project Euler
• Challenging Programs from ACM
• Ruby Quiz
• Top Coder
• Google Code Jam
• Code Kata

Misc Links

• Computer History
• History of Computing
• Timeline of Computer History
• ASCII Table
• ASCII Character Set
• Unicode
• Number Conversions
• Matrix Multiplication Tutorial
• Pair Programming
• Cartoons of Sidney Harris
• Sherlock Holmes and the Solar System
• Adaptive Mesh Refinement

Tutorial on SQL

• SQL Tutorial at W3Schools
• Interactive Online SQL Training
• SQL Tutorial Introduction
• Sky Server SQL Tutorial
• Nested SQL Queries
• MySQL Tutorial
• SQL Injection Cartoon

Astronomy and Physics Links

Brief Introduction to Astronomy

• My Notes in Astronomy
• Learn Astronomy
• SDSS Voyages

Positional Astronomy

• Celestial Sphere
• Positions on the Celestial Sphere
• Animation of the Earth's Precession
• Time and Date
• Panjika
• Sky Maps
• Monthly Star Chart
• IAU Constellations

Scale of Things

• Scale of the Universe
• Known Universe
• Astronomical Magnitudes
• Apparent Magnitudes

Solar System

• Overview of the Solar System

Variable Stars

• American Association of Variable Star Observers
• Student Observing Projects
• Heartbeat Stars
• Phoebe Project
• Download Variable Star Data

Stellar Evolution

• Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
• Stardust

Stellar Deaths

• Recent Supernovae
• Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory
• American Association of Variable Star Observers
• Planetary Nebulae Gallery
• Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope

Nebulae

• Hubble Space Telescope Images of Nebulae
• Images of Planetary Nebulae

Star Clusters

• Catalogue of Star Clusters
• Star Clusters
• ESO Star Clusters
• Other Links to Star Clusters

Black Holes

• LIGO
• Inside Black Holes

Milky Way

• Composite Picture of the Milky Way
• Images of the Milky Way
• Mapping the Structure of the Milky Way
• Center of Milky Way
• Spitzer Infrared Images
• UCLA Galactic Center Group
• Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics
• Finding Bubbles in the Milky Way

Galaxies

• Messier Catalog
• New General Catalogue
• Top 100 Pictures from Hubble Space Telescope
• Galaxy Classification
• Hubble Atlas
• Irregular Galaxies
• Classifying Galaxies
• Reference Galaxies for Classification
• Galaxy Clusters
• Hubble Images of Galaxy Clusters
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Galaxy Zoo
• Radio Galaxy Zoo
• Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
• Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
• NASA Swift Gamma Ray Observatory
• NuSTAR

Expanding Universe

• Measuring the Hubble's Constant
• History of Cosmology
• Cosmic Microwave Background
• Difference Dark Energy and Dark Matter
• Planck Space Observatory

Cosmology

• Hobby Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment
• Dark Energy Survey
• European Organization for Nuclear research
• Higgs Hunters
• Multiverses
• Fabric of the Cosmos

Large Scale Structures in the Universe

• Legacy Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey III
• Fly Through
• Bolshoi Simulation
• ALMA Telescope

Astronomical Surveys and Catalogues

• Radial Velocity Experiment

Resources for Scholarly Research

• JSTOR
• Google Scholar

Space Missions

• Cassini Mission to Saturn
• Mars Science Laboratory
• MAVEN Mars Mission
• Kepler Space Telescope
• Gaia Mission

Life in the Universe

• Astrobiology Magazine
• Habitable Exoplanets Catalog
• Super Planet Crash

Misc Physics Links

• Electromagnetism Animations
• UW Astro Labs

Papers

• A Mathematician's Apology
• Hubble Atlas