README.md

Antennas Lab - UFMG - 2019/02

Why should you use python?

• Advantages and disadvantages
• Most popular languages
• Data science and machine learning

Where can you learn python?

• The main source is always the python documentation
• There are also courses like sololearn, udemy, codecademy, ...
• Youtube channels
• Once you know the basics, stackoverflow and google are your best bets.

Usually, the 4NEC2 can be used to simulate antennas, but its GUI is limited. Then, using a wrapper interface to communicate with the NEC engine is the best solution. There are wrapper interfaces for several languages, amongst them:

• PyNEC for python
• necpp for c++

What do you need to run the examples in this repository?

• 4NEC2: https://www.qsl.net/4nec2/
• Python 3.X: https://www.python.org/downloads/
• PyNEC: https://github.com/tmolteno/python-necpp/tree/master/PyNEC [pip3 install pynec]
• Numpy: https://numpy.org/ [pip3 install numpy]
• Matplotlib: https://matplotlib.org/ [pip3 install matplotlib]

Optimizer using python:

http://clients.teksavvy.com/~nickm/scripts.html