The quickstart is a series of worked examples of how to use much of the funtionality of yt. These are simple, short introductions to give you a taste of what the code can do and are not meant to be detailed walkthroughs.
There are two ways in which you can go through the quickstart: interactively and non-interactively. We recommend the interactive method, but if you’re pressed on time, you can non-interactively go through the linked pages below and view the worked examples.
To execute the quickstart interactively, you need to download the repository and start the IPython notebook. If you do not already have the yt repository, the easiest way to get the repository is to clone it using mercurial:
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt
Now start the IPython notebook from within the repository:
cd yt/doc/source/quickstart
yt notebook
This command will give you information about the notebook server and how to access it. You will basically just pick a password (for security reasons) and then redirect your web browser to point to the notebook server. Once you have done so, choose “Introduction” from the list of notebooks, which includes an introduction and information about how to download the sample data.
Warning
The pre-filled out notebooks are far less fun than running them yourselves! Check out the repo and give it a try.
Here are the notebooks, which have been filled in for inspection:
Note
The notebooks use sample datasets that are available for download at http://yt-project.org/data. See Introduction for more details.
Let us know if you would like to contribute other example notebooks, or have any suggestions for how these can be improved.