2. Tutorials

The pages in this section of the documentation are aimed at the newcomer to numdifftools. They’re designed to help you get started quickly, and show how easy it is to work with numdifftools as a developer who wants to customise it and get it working according to their own requirements.

These tutorials take you step-by-step through some key aspects of this work. They’re not intended to explain the topics in depth, or provide reference material, but they will leave you with a good idea of what it’s possible to achieve in just a few steps, and how to go about it.

Once you’re familiar with the basics presented in these tutorials, you’ll find the more in-depth coverage of the same topics in the How-to section.

The tutorials follow a logical progression, starting from installation of numdifftools and the creation of a brand new project, and build on each other, so it’s recommended to work through them in the order presented here.

• 2.1. Install guide
• 2.2. Getting started
• 2.3. Conclusion
• 2.4. What to read next

See also

Numdifftools is 100% Python, so if you’re new to Python, you might want to start by getting an idea of what the language is like. Below we have given some pointers to some resources you can use to get acquainted with the language.

If you’re new to programming entirely, you might want to start with this list of Python resources for non-programmers

If you already know a few other languages and want to get up to speed with Python quickly, we recommend Dive Into Python. If that’s not quite your style, there are many other books about Python.