knelli2
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2 years ago Yes I think this would be a very good idea, coming from somebody who was (and still kind of is) unfamiliar with the numerical methods you listed above. I like the transition from something simple that most students can understand (like python code) to how we do things in SpECTRE in a certain number of steps. When first starting out, I found the explanation of our DataBox to be very illustrative of how you can use a simple concept and transform it into how we do things in SpECTRE.
If we do this, I think this should be a completely different section from the dev guide and the user tutorials. Maybe something like Getting started with numerical methods in SpECTRE or Introduction to numerical methods in SpECTRE
Shall we add some onboarding tutorials/notebooks for new students? I'm thinking some introductions to DG / spectral methods, numerical derivatives, time steppers, etc to introduce/motivate our numerical methods, e.g., evolve a scalar wave in a few lines of Python and then work our way up to evolving it in SpECTRE. So the idea would be to tell a new (summer/undergrad/graduate-)student, who may have had little contact with computational physics thus far, to work through these couple of notebooks in their first week to get started. Thoughts?