Overview

Teaching: 20 min
Exercises: 20 min

Questions

• How can I store and manipulate arrays?

• How can I do linear algebra?

Objectives

• Write programs that create and load arrays using NumPy.

• Replace for loops with vectorized indexing operations.

• Perform linear algebra operations on NumPy arrays.

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Exercises

• Fit polynomial curves to data using vectorized linear algebra operations.

Key Points

• Use NumPy arrays to store multi-dimensional arrays.

• Algebraic matrices are a special case of arrays.

• Array operations make (most) loops unnecessary.