Re: [matplotlib-devel] SciPy 2013

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Phil Elson <pel...@gm...> wrote:

> >I am putting together a beginners tutorial proposal that I will submit
> soon
>
> That's great to hear! Are you planning on making the tutorial material
> part of mpl's docs or using the content that is already out there?
>
>
>
It is all new stuff, but I have been taking inspirations from other
tutorials I have seen and said to myself "You are all teaching it wrong!"
:-P

I am ignoring pylab (risky, I know), starting with a *very* basic NumPy
primer, and then moving on to teach matplotlib from the perspective of
"here are what the parts of a plot are called and what they are for, and
see what happens when we put those parts together".  It is an ingredients
approach, essentially.

Hopefully, aspects of it will be useful for the docs when it is finished.
I am also hoping that having a ipython notebook version of it will help
others to improve it for future conferences (there should always be an
intro to matplotlib tutorial at SciPy).

Ben Root