Software Carpentry at QM

h1. MAT Software Carpentry Feb 2013 - Assessed Exercise

h2. Deadline

Deadline is *Monday 18th Feb at 5pm*

h2. 1. Download fish datafile

The file (attached at the bottom of this page) contains three columns - date, species, and a count of the number of sightings

of that type of fish.

Some months, no fish of a certain type were seen, and there is no entry for the fish that month.

There are some comment lines which you should ignore, these lines start with #.

Someone thought that turtles were fish and entered counts for them. Ignore the turtles.

h2. 2. Create a Python script to create a single plot showing the number of each type of fish each month

i.e. the plot should have a line for each type of fish.

The script should take the name of the data file as a parameter.

If a type of fish appears more than one time in a month, add the counts together.

h2. 3. Provide a README file

This should be a text file called README.txt which should appear in your project's top-level directory, with your name and email and instructions on how to run your script.

h2. 4. Put the scripts and the README file in a new repository under your bitbucket.org account

Make this repository private, but add at least one of us to it. Our usernames are:

* Chris: @cannam@

* Luis: @lafigueira@

* Steve: @stevewelburn@

h2. Notes:

* create the bitbucket repository as soon as you start working and commit frequently

* if you have any questions, email either Steve (stephen.welburn), Chris (chris.cannam) or Luis (luis.figueira) -- all email addresses are @eecs.qmul.ac.uk.