On Thu Oct 20 18:23:28, Peter Bowyer wrote: [IDE features]
> I really appreciate having an inspector window to show me the values > of variables, either all of them or ones I've asked it specifically > to watch. This saves me from having to put in print statements or > (at the interactive shell) to keep typing the variable names to see > what happened after the last equation was executed. > > I'll think about the rest, there have been other things. I like an > integrated searchable manual for a number of reasons. It would be good to have a decent general IDE to use as a platform on which to add more specialized features. I imagine that most IDEs have some kind of plugin architecture to allow this. > > http://rlabplus.sourceforge.net/ > > There seem to be a lot of these around, Scilab and Octave just to > mention two others. This always annoyed us, as one professor would > make us use Scilab while another used a very old version of Matlab > (not teaching the syntax for either). It's one reason I support a > one tool fits all situation. Yes, it may be difficult to justify choosing any given Matlab-like environment over the others. > >In an ideal world, I'd have used an ODE solver from Python. > > How about scipy.integrate.odeint :) That would probably have done the trick, but I can't remember if that was available at the time. David _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
