really cool it is not what i meant but this is good news for me thanks
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:35 AM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Fahreddın > Basegmez <mangab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Could it be Mekanimo? It let's you create circles and polygons and >> join them together with connectors while automatically generating >> Python code. Created objects behave like agents. Here are some >> videos. > > > Hey this Mekanimo thing is fantastic. Amazingly cool use of the wx API for > GUI. Really, Python? > Thanks Fahri! > I relayed my pleasure to mathfuture, a Google group. > http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture/browse_thread/thread/d006e2daf0e5110d# > Maria D. also expressed appreciation, replying on naturalmath: > http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath/browse_thread/thread/17585b0643e3aabc# > mathfuture is where I do some of my Martian Math writing, a curriculum that > uses Python quite a bit (including VPython [1]), but is far enough afield to > sometimes make more sense in another namespace. > Speaking of Martian Math, I feel obliged to cluck about the Buckyball on > Google yesterday. > I yakked with Josh Cronmeyer about it by email. He and I met up at an OS > Bridge before he took off for Australia (that's the Josh mentioned in this > blog post -- he's Python programmer of note, works with Thoughtworks.com): > http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2010/09/buckyball-day.html > In a couple hours I'm off the PDX (our airport) to fetch Steve Holden, PSF > chairman. Holden Web is this the organizer of this year's DjangoCon in > Portland. > http://djangocon.us/ > Kirby > <historica type = "biographica" > > [1] > if you dig back in edu-sig you will find Arthur Siegel and I doing a lot of > the talking. He was some high powered guy in the financial district, NYC, > who wisely devoted much of his remaining time to raising his son and doing > some esoteric Python programming to explore projective geometry. Pygeo is > the name of his free / open source project, which makes heavy use of > VPython. Can't think of anything quite like it either before or since. > Check it out. > http://pygeo.sourceforge.net/ > Arthur was a passionate and colorful character and our debates on this list > were free ranging (much to the dismay of some). We met twice in New York, > also talked on the phone. This old blog post chronicles our 2nd and last > meeting: > http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2005/05/tree-house.html > (paragraphs 2,3) > > [2] > http://djangocon.us/ > Holden Web provided me with an exceptional opportunity in April, to lead a > 3-day workshop for the Space Telescope Science Institute (Johns Hopkins > campus, Baltimore). I'd expressed admiration for Hubble and the astronomer > groups using Python, but never dreamed I'd be able to do a Python training > with them. > I also got to look over Steve's shoulder as he did some curriculum writing > for O'Reilly School of Technology. This school offers for-credit distance > education courses using a customized student version of Eclipse called > Ellipse. > </historcia> > >> Physcial proof of the pythagorean theorem >> http://www.youtube.com/user/fbasegmez#p/a/u/0/rQUW5BvdIkc >> >> Ragdolls >> http://www.youtube.com/user/fbasegmez#p/a/u/1/CWhg_u4K4ow >> >> James Watt's linkage >> http://www.youtube.com/user/fbasegmez#p/a/u/2/K1pdoLi6UPc >> >> This shows how to make a platform game with it >> http://vimeo.com/14469657 >> >> Fahri >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > -- roberto _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
