PHYS410 Scientific Computation Survey

How would you state the level of your computer skills?

I know what a computer is

I program on occasion

I write code daily and process data

I was once arrested for hacking into NORAD

I hacked into NORAD and did not get caught

(minus 2 points if you googled NORAD)

Which computer language are you most proficient in?

FORTRAN

C++

Python

COBAL

Java

What type of hardware are you using?

Mac

Windows

Linux

Chromebook

my phone

Enter all the Physics 3XX/4XX courses you have taken separated by a comma (i.e. PHYS351,PHYS352,PHYS410) :

Answer these astronomy questions:

I know what proper motion is (Y/N):

I know what an AGB star is (Y/N):

I know the current value of Omega_M (Y/N):

I know what a flat rotation curve is (Y/N):

I have work on datasets the size of

my bank account

a few 100

Mbytes

Gbytes

Tbytes

Pbytes (liar)

I have worked with (pick the one you like best)

Mathematica

Unix

Windows

IPython

Jupyter

I have a career ambition to:

be a theorist

be an experimentalist

be an observer

work for Google

work for Wall Street

I am familiar with:

LaTeX (Y/N):

HTML (Y/N):

RPN calculators (Y/N):

Matplotlib (Y/N):

Github (Y/N):

pip (Y/N):

Vi or Emacs:

MKS or CGS:

What do you want out of this course (be brief):