Week 1.2

Numerical Modelling

• Book theory

  • Revision of Concepts

  • The First Derivative

  • Finite Difference method

  • Taylor Series Expansion

  • Numerical Integration

• Lecture slides

• Collegerama recording (TU Delft login required)

• Workshop assignment: Gumbel and Shake

  • Numerical integration and differentiation

• Group assignment: Streams and Series

  • Numerical integration, based on an example from hydrological data analysis

  • Approximating a function with Taylor polynomials

  • Using Taylor series to approximate derivatives numerically

Programming

• Sharing code in reports

  • Book chapters

    • File Paths

    • Markdown

  • Programming assignment: Markdown Mania

    • Report in a markdown file

    • Markdown in a Jupyter notebook file

• Programming preparations for workshop and group assignments

  • Programming assignment: Markdown Mania

    • Programming assignment: Uploading files to GitHub repo

    • Visualizing a matrix

    • Creating subplots

    • List comprehension

    • Filling a matrix

• Fundamental programming concepts

  • Programming assignment: Markdown Mania

    • Flow