[AstroPy] Astropy demo presentations

[Leo Singer]

On Aug 8, 2013, at 10:00 AM, astropy-request at scipy.org wrote:

> From: Erik Bray <embray at stsci.edu>
> Subject: Re: [AstroPy] Astropy demo presentations.
> Date: August 8, 2013 8:50:10 AM PDT
> To: <astropy at scipy.org>
> 
> 
> On 08/07/2013 12:56 PM, Demitri Muna wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Aug 7, 2013, at 12:28 PM, Leo Singer <lsinger at caltech.edu
>> <mailto:lsinger at caltech.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Next week, I am supposed to give a tutorial on Astropy during a 'bootcamp'
>>> session of the iPTF workshop
>>> (http://ptf.caltech.edu/iptf/iptf_workshop/srk_agenda.html). I am interpreting
>>> this as an introduction to Python itself as well. I have half an hour, but I
>>> am asking the organizers to extend that to a full hour. Are there any tutorial
>>> resources on Astropy that I should know about? My idea was to put together a
>>> presentation as an IPython Notebook and go through a few different common data
>>> analysis tasks.
>> 
>> This raises a request I was going to bring up. For each major release, can we
>> (as a group) put together an Astropy demonstration for each major release? This
>> way when there is a new release, people at any institution would have something
>> to demo for their department, e.g. at their morning coffee. I think many more
>> people will give such a presentation if it exists versus sitting down to write
>> one and give it. I'd recommend a five minute version and a half-hour version.
>> These should be available coincident with the releases, and highlight the major
>> functionality of Astropy. If one has to choose between a full introduction and a
>> "what is new since the last release", I'd opt for the former, but both would be
>> ideal.
> 
> Each new feature release already includes the latter: http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/0.2.html
> 
> Though I could see a cumulative guide that's kept up to date (and that incorporates examples from the "what's new" page) being useful too.

I'm a little torn on which version of Astropy I should use for this workshop. Personally, I always use the bleeding edge from Git. Is it a very bad idea to teach from Git rather than from the stable release?

FYI, some of the tasks in the tutorial will include Astroquery and Photutils.

Thanks,
Leo
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