Welcome to the Prickly Pythons
This is a group for python users, mainly at SESE (School of Earth and Space Exploration) in Tempe, Arizona. The group started as an idea from SESE postdoctoral reserachers and graduate students to have a platform to disscuss and share codes and idears about Python and scientific programing in general to help each other learn more and develop a scientific programing community within SESE. SESE and related personals with any levle of programing exerience are welcome to join the group. Every member is encourage to utilize this platform to help moving the SESE programing community forward!
Next Meeting
Will be posted on our landing page: http://prickly-pythons.github.io/
About This Repository
This repository is part of our platform and is the main repository for the Prickly Pythons. Members are encourage to share code templates, examples and tutorials by pushing to the repository. We also encourage members to ask questions, make requests and give suggestions to the group by using GitHub issue tracking functionality.
In addition, we will pick some topics from the repo and discuss them at our weekly lunch meeting (Time TBD).
Gitter Chat Room
In addition, we have a chatroom on Gitter for members to chat and ask questions in realtime. The Gitter chatroom is linked to this repository. It uses your GitHub account as a log-in, no information will be sent to Gitter, and it allow GitHub Flavor Makrdown for codes parsing and the use of @mention. There is a Gitter app available on most operating systems.
Using the Repository
Sharing Your Stuff
Every team members should be able to push/pull (write/read) to the repository. To push/pull, first you have to install git. Then, you have to clone (download) the sese-python-users repository. On your favorite command line program, go to the directory that you would like to clone to repository be located and type,
git clone https://github.com/prickly-pythons/prickly-pythons.git
The prickly-pythons directory is your "local" copy of the group repository. You can do the following to your local reposity.
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Track change that you have made by typing
git status. -
Pull (update) from the main repository by typing
git pull. -
Modify and add files or directories.
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Commit (save) and push (upload) your change to the group main repository.
git add name_of_modified_or_added_file git commit -m "briefly say what change you make here" git push
Note that might have to pull first before you can push.
Asking Questions via Issue Tracking
To be updated ...
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Group Admins
Karen Olsen (@kpolsen), kpolsen@asu.edu
Piyanat (Boom) Kittiwisit (@piyanatk), piyanat.kittiwisit@asu.edu
Abhi Rajan (@abhijithrajan), abhijithrajan@asu.edu
Kimberly Ward-Duong (@spacegal-spiff), kwardduo@asu.edu