Darned right, we're proud of you! Python and Linux - way to go! ;) Cheers, Vern
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Calcpage <calcp...@aol.com> wrote: > Hello Kirby et al, > > OK, you guys should be very proud of me. I've been dabbling on the > outskirts of your fine python community until recently. I entered your > world via a back door of sorts. I was looking for a new curriculum for my > intro CompSci students and found Gary Litvin's new text "Mathematics for the > Digital Age" which details a course in Discrete Mathematics with an emphasis > on Pythonic Math. I was using SAGE with these students all year until now. > Unfortunately, I've met with a lot of lag and downtime using the various > online SAGE servers recently. So, I finally broke down and installed a > FTP/SFTP server just for this class using Ubuntu Linux and I installed > Python and IDLE. We've been writing python scripts for 2 weeks now and we're > not looking back! > > Enjoy, > A. Jorge Garcia > Applied Math & CS > Baldwin SHS & Nassau CC > http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com > http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 > Sent from my iPod > > On Dec 13, 2010, at 5:36 PM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Vern Ceder < <vce...@gmail.com> > vce...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for both versions, Kirby! I'll take the applause wherever/however I >> can get it. ;) >> >> > That's cool. You've been a good Giles, a role I can also relate too. > > >> I'm not into COM/Windows much, but the basic example is a neat way to >> illustrate threading... I'll have to remember to steal it, maybe for the >> classes I teach to our 8th graders. ;) >> >> > Yeah, me either until recently. Good example of a host environment > wrapping an alien "egg" (in this case a Python COM object) and continuing to > run its own process, even while triggering running code in this other > language. > > I'm beholden to the Medusa metaphor of asynchronous event handling. A > thread is a lot like a Python generator in that it time shares through next > iterations. Twisted is what became of her, outside of Zope. > > > >> Speaking of 8th graders, these days I'm also teaching online Python >> courses for middle school kids through Northwestern's Gifted Learrning Links >> program - an intro to Python using Hello World! and (starting in January) an >> intermediate Python class, which will do more with OOP concepts and GUI's. >> The link is here (the intermediate course isn't up yet, but should be soon) >> - >> <http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/gll/courses/enrichment/winter2011/#Technology> >> http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/gll/courses/enrichment/winter2011/#Technology >> >> > This is all good. I've been back in touch with the VPython principal, > Bruce Sherwood, to compare notes. He used to get guff from Arthur on this > list, yet they found a symbiotic pattern around Numpy. > > For those more recently joining us: Arthur was our friend in the NYC > financial sector who jumped onto Python + VPython in a big way, to develop > his Pygeo projective geometry toolkit. > > I'd hoped to see him at a GWU / Pycon, one of Steve Holden's events, but > that's the year my wife needed me home pronto (I was already in DC for a > Bucky Fuller symposium, also at GWU). > > As it was, we had a good dinner with David Lansky and his kids, in New York > City itself. Some kind of ethnic pancake place, upper east side. > > Anyway, just reminiscing about some of our players. The Python community > is pretty stellar, although I'm also blown away by Perl's. > > I just haven't met that many Ruby people yet. I should probably go to some > Rubicons, if that's what they're called. > > One of my favorite Java programmers is Gerald de Jong, who pretty much > invented the field of Elastic Interval Geometry. Here's one of his > Youtubes. > > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6I3utbJ1M8> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6I3utbJ1M8 > > See <http://springie.com>springie.com by Tim Tyler for another excellent > example of an EIG application. > > These days Gerald is the solo programmer on a multi-user game called > Tetragotchi. He's amazing. > > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xis6QxneccM> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xis6QxneccM (someone filming beta > tetragotchi) > > Kirby > > > PS: I need to stick a Queue object on the head of my jellyfish (Medusa COM > object). As FoxPro calls in, yelling "route me a truck", I'll queue the > request, not unlike an httprequest. Indeed, some might ask "why not use > XML-RPC"? Well, you'd still have the same dynamic of needing to return a > "job ticket" right away, then have the caller come back for the dry cleaning > another time. So asynchronous thinking would be involved. > > > > >> Cheers, >> Vern >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > -- Vern Ceder vce...@gmail.com, vce...@dogsinmotion.com The Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed - http://bit.ly/bRsWDW
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