Re: [Edu-sig] school physics/math courses

2008-10-17 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:15 AM, roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello (i am rather new in python ...) Have you looked at NumPy and SciPy yet? Or anything written using them? i am about to start a course of physics and math for students aged 14-17 (high school) and i am deeply interested

[Edu-sig] Scapy on Windows

2008-10-17 Thread Amol Jadhav
Hi, I'm having lot of trouble to get Scapy run on Windows. I have tried to do all thishttp://trac.secdev.org/scapy/wiki/WindowsInstallationGuide?format=txtthings. Scapy says it cannot find gnupot and pcap module. Although I installed gnuplot I still don't know why it can't find it? Then comes

[Edu-sig] pseudo code that runs

2008-10-17 Thread michel paul
For reasons I won't bore you with, my principal and dept chair called a meeting with me regarding my use of Python in math classes. Bottom line - a positive dialog. My principal asked, What is Python? I gave him as good an answer as I could at that moment. Later, after some reflection, this is

Re: [Edu-sig] school physics/math courses

2008-10-17 Thread michel paul
We should abandon the vision that physicists seek an ultimate mathematical description of the universe since it is not obvious that it exists. The job of the physicist is that of modeling phenomena within the physical scales of observed events. For some systems, the modeling can be done more

Re: [Edu-sig] school physics/math courses

2008-10-17 Thread Edward Cherlin
2008/10/17 michel paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We should abandon the vision that physicists seek an ultimate mathematical description of the universe since it is not obvious that it exists. I disagree with this attitude. We can seek an ultimate mathematical description, since it is not obvious that