====== Programming Expectations ======
General rule for our system: As much boilerplate as possible, no fancy bashrcs, aliases or IDEs.


===== Requirements for a VM =====
  * Browser
  * WiFi access (should come from base OS)
  * User account (!)
  * Python 2.7.x (incl. offline documentation)
    * IPython
    * NumPy
    * Matplotlib
    * SciPy
    * ASE
    * pip
  * MicroMegas
  * OOFEM
  * Text Editor (Sublime Text? - they should at least be able to use the mouse, syntax highlighting)
  * htop
  * paraview
  * jade (DEM) (?)
  * should use as few resources as conveniently possible
  * users should be able to install software when they know how to do it
  * fipy

Should be tested on the WW8 CIP pool computers, the WW8 laptops, one OS X machine, one Windows Machine, WW CIP pool, electronical engineering CIP pool

Provide a test suite for the tutors/admins to see if everything is working correctly.

===== General Skills =====
  * google
  * working with documentations (especially Python)
  * with regards to plotting: should the student be in the situation when he has to plot a function with a singularity he should be able to recognize this and adjust the limits accordingly to sensible values. Prime examples: Lennard-Jones-Potential, stress field of a dislocation, etc. etc.
  * know the relevance of backups
  * using htop
  * killing stuck programs (while loops are lame)
  * knowing the limitations of the computer (memory, cpu speed)
  * extracting the algorithm from a mathematical formula

===== Shell =====
  * navigation in the directory tree
  * copying files
  * moving files
  * deleting files
  * opening a text editor
  * working with the text editor

===== Python =====

==== General ====
  * functions
  * modules
  * learn how to read exceptions (-> debugging)
  * debugging
  * common "pitfalls" (float numbers, numbering starts at 0)
  * execution of script in the shell (chmod, shebang, starting from ipython console)
  * proper directory structure for "projects" (doc, tests, bin, output)

==== Standard Library ====
  * printing
  * text formatting
  * reading a file
  * parsing a file
    * as a whole
    * line by line
  * writing to a file
  * boolean logic
  * binary operators
  * conditionals
    * if
    * elif
    * else
  * data containers
    * tuple + slicing
    * list + slicing
      * append
    * dict 
  * loops
    * while loop
    * for loop (with else, introduce iterators before!)
    * breaking out of a loop
    * loop-recursing (is that really a loop inside a loop?!)
  * range

==== NumPy ====
  * NumPy array
    * initializing
      * zeros + shape
      * ones + shape
      * full + shape
      * zeros_like
      * ones_like
      * full_like
    * shape
    * slicing
    * reading from file
    * writing to file
  * they should know that the default binary operators act element-wise
  * arange
  * linspace
  * stacking arrays
  * meshgrid
  * linear algebra
    * dot product
    * cross product
    * determinant
    * solving systems of equations

==== Matplotlib ====
  * plot types
    * line plot
    * scatter plot
    * pcolormesh
    * contour plot
  * working with figures
  * working with axes
  * plotting interactively
    * plot.hold
    * plot.ion -> ax.set_ydata -> plot.ioff
  * saving the figure in a file
  * closing figures
  * adding a title
  * adding labels
  * setting linestyle (color, marker, linetype)
  * setting limits
  * subfigures
  * changing the colorscale
  * changing the colormap

===== Possible Tasks =====