Nansat Lectures

Materials for the course on scientific programming with Python

Installation

For simple installation the Nansat Lectures can be run in a Docker container:

# 1. Install Docker <https://www.docker.com> on your platform.

# 2. Clone Nansat Lectures repository to your computer
git clone https://github.com/nansencenter/nansat-lectures.git
cd nansat-lectures

# 3. Start Jupyter Notebook in a Docker container
docker run --rm -v `pwd`:/src -p 8888:8888 nansencenter/nansat-lectures

# 4. Open the link given by the Jupyter Notebook in your browser

Alternatively, Nansat-lectures can also be run on a virtual machine. In order to configure and start the virtual machine you will first need to install:

• GIT <https://git-scm.com/>
• Vagrant <https://www.vagrantup.com/>
• Ansible <http://www.ansible.com/home>
• Virtual box <https://www.virtualbox.org/>

These apckages are freely available for Linux, Mac and Windows and are easy to install.

After installation of these requirements, do the steps below.

Download the virtual box configuration:

git clone https://github.com/nansencenter/nersc-vagrant.git

Start virtual machine and install everything:

cd nersc-vagrant
vagrant up course

Wait c.a. 10 minutes untill all Nansat dependencies are installed.

Now restart virtual machine and wait 1-2 minutes until ipython notebooks are available:

vagrant halt course
vagrant up course

Open <http://192.168.33.11:8888> with your favorite browser. Jupyter Notebook manager should appear where you will find available notebooks. To start with, open the 'hello-world' notebook, click in the cell right after the 'print "Hello, World!"' statement and press Shift-Enter.

Enjoy the course!