[Edu-sig] fyi. a published thesis, use of Python in class

2008-09-10 Thread Fotis Georgatos
Hello *, since I occasionaly get people interested in my MSc thesis that was written long ago (2002) - people even reference it but, it's rather hard to get the original being somewhere in Amsterdam - I hereby inform you of its electronic presence at arxiv.org: arXiv:0809.1437 [pdf] Title:

[Edu-sig] Network Simulations using Python

2008-09-10 Thread David MacQuigg
I'm putting together some problems for students in ECE 578, Computer Networks. The simulator being used in the class is truly awful, one of these expensive commercial programs, dumbed down for academic use, but still loaded with the non-essential complexity typical of programs written for

Re: [Edu-sig] Fwd: fyi. a published thesis, use of Python in class

2008-09-10 Thread Vern Ceder
kirby urner wrote: I don't manage the edu-sig web page any more, for python.org, but could see where a link to this thesis would look handsome right next to bullet 5: John Miller's PhD dissertation, Promoting Computer Literacy Through Programming Python (1.37 MB), looks at the issues around

Re: [Edu-sig] Network Simulations using Python

2008-09-10 Thread Andre Roberge
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:43 PM, David MacQuigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm putting together some problems for students in ECE 578, Computer Networks. The simulator being used in the class is truly awful, one of these expensive commercial programs, dumbed down for academic use, but still