AstroHammer: Astro Techniques for Beginners
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AstroHammer: Astro Techniques for Beginners
About
AstroHammer is a small project hosted by the galaxy group in the Department of Astronomy, Tsinghua University. Its main target is to provide computer-science-related introduction material for astronomy beginners. The features of this project include:
A large range of topic is covered, from organizing your first project, first time working on a machine, managing your work environment, programming, using famous and useful third-party libraries, writing language-specific libraries, publishing data/software, to developing interesting GUI-based softwares.
The basic parts of those topics are presented, with emphasis on the frequent usage in Astronomy-related situation. Carefully chosen “Futher Reading” materials are provided as the starting-point to master them.
To help readers quickly dive into those topics, the following resources are provided:
This Github repository: all material (code samples, data samples, lecture videos, problem sets and solutions) are hosted here.
The lecture notes are served in Read the Docs.
Regular online meetings will be organize to introduce these topics. The meetings will loop over all the topics periodically (1~2 years per loop), everyone is welcomed. See below for a Schedule.
The project, currently, is organized by Kai Wang (kosmoswalker.com) and Yangyao Chen (chenyangyao.com). We welcome everyone to contribute to this project. For example:
Raise a Github issus for any problem encountered when learning.
Start a Pull Request to help improve the quality of the present material, or add new topics you’d like to learn from us.
Register as a reporter in the online meeting to share your ideas, tools or anything that is technically interesting.
Lecture Notes
The current prepared topics are listed below. We prepare to finish them in (at-least) 7 meetings.