Quickstart Guide

This quickstart guide to using yt begins by showing you how to install yt and its dependencies, shows you how to make some simple plots, and then moves to a brief explanation of how to use python and how yt’s framework fits into that. Finally, it addresses how to ask questions of your data using yt.

But, before getting too far in, here are a few resources that may come in handy along the way. (These go from most-specific to least-specific!)

• yt-users mailing list
• Numpy docs
• Matplotlib docs
• Python quickstart
• Learn Python the Hard Way
• Byte of Python
• Dive Into Python

If you encounter any problems here, or anywhere in yt, please visit the Asking for Help page to figure out a solution.

• Installing yt
• Extremely Simple Data Inspection
• A Brief Introduction to Python
  • Starting Python
  • Data Types
  • Mutables vs Immutables and Is Versus Equals
  • Looping
  • Conditionals
  • Array Operations
  • Scripted Usage
  • Functions and Objects
• How yt Thinks About Data
• First Steps with yt
  • Starting Up yt
  • Grid Inspection
  • Data Containers and Data Selection
• Making Plots
• Where To Go From Here