Course details
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Course meetings
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**Class sessions**

- 12:15-14:00 on Wednesdays in C323, Exactum

**Exercise support sessions**

- 12:15-16:00 on Fridays in E205, Physicum

Instructors
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*Email: firstname.lastname@helsinki.fi*

.. **David Whipp**, course instructor

.. - Office: D426, Exactum

In 2025, course creator and instructor David Whipp is on leave. Ann-Kathrin Maier will be responsible for teaching.

**Ann-Kathrin Maier**, course teacher in 2025

- Office: C426, Exactum

Course website
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- Main course site: https://introqg.github.io
- Geo-Python course site: https://geo-python.github.io

Textbooks
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There are **no required textbooks** for this course.
This course uses a wide range of sources for course information and the main textbooks are given below.

Recommended textbooks (in order of relevance):

- Zelle, J. (2016) `Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science <https://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/ppics3/>`_, Third edition. Franklin, Beedle & Associates.
- Braun, J., van der Beek, P. and Batt, G. (2006) `Quantitative Thermochronology: Numerical Methods for the Interpretation of Thermochronological Data <http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/geochemistry-and-environmental-chemistry/quantitative-thermochronology-numerical-methods-interpretation-thermochronological-data>`_, First edition. Cambridge University Press.
- Taylor, J. R. (2022) `An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements <https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781940380087/an-introduction-to-error-analysis/>`_, Third edition. The MIT Press.
- Stüwe, K. (2007) `Geodynamics of the Lithosphere <https://wegener.earth/publication/books/geodyn2nd/>`_, Second edition. Springer.


Optional textbooks:

- Pelletier, J. (2008) `Quantitative Modeling of Earth Surface Processes <http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/geomorphology-and-physical-geography/quantitative-modeling-earth-surface-processes?format=HB>`_, First edition. Springer.
- Trauth, M. H. (2010) `MATLAB® Recipes for Earth Sciences <http://www.springer.com/cn/book/9783642447167>`_, Third edition. Springer.
- Beazley, D. M. (2012) `Python Essential Reference <http://www.dabeaz.com/per.html>`_, Fourth edition. Addison-Wesley.