[Edu-sig] Python Installation with PyLab?

2012-08-23 Thread Jeremy Bruce
Hi Edu, I'm hoping to start bringing python into my math teaching in stages over the next year. I've been trying out different installations and setups, and wondering if anyone could offer any guidance. Ideally, I'd have a setup that included numpy/scipy/matplotlib, but that stuff seems to be

Re: [Edu-sig] Python Installation with PyLab?

2012-08-23 Thread michel paul
I've settled on using Visual Python, Sage, and GeoGebra. It's not yet there, but I know a future version of GeoGebra will support Python scripting. I'm looking forward to that. Visual Python is very nice for creating 3d graphics, plus it has nice 2d functional graphing. Since it IS Python, simply

Re: [Edu-sig] Python Installation with PyLab?

2012-08-23 Thread Jeremy Bruce
So, I have iPython installed on my machine, because I did the EPD install. The notebook worked fine in Chrome...so am I to understand that it's using my local machine as an iPython server and just using the browser as the interface? How would this work with a classroom of students? Would they