Dan W.,
Thanks for the information to help with the installs.
I will certainly let you know the results.
Dan
Dan Lewis
Assistant Professor
Materials Research Center, Room 110
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rpi.edu/~lewisd2
518-276-2297
On Sep 29, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Daniel Wheeler wrote:
Dan,
Thanks for the update. As you know, we will try and support you as
much as possible.
I forwarded this to the fipy list as stuff below is relevant to
others.
I would like to make you of aware of what people are beginning to
call pylab. This basically
consists of ipython, scipy, matplotlib and other symbolic maths
tools (as they become available,
some already are, see scipy list thread below). There are
some good arguments for using this as opposed to Matlab or
Mathematica.
The main one being that python offers a superior programming language
to either of the commercial options. There has been a recent
informative thread
on the scipy-user list:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.scientific.user/8950/
focus=8950>
There is some discussion from people whio have taught using pylab
and other stuff.
The wiki page is here:
<http://www.scipy.org/NumPyProConPage>
One particular argument I like is that people often prototype in
matlab or mathematica then have
to go off and write a C code. Using pylab avoids that hurdle as you
have the power of a full
language if you need to turn your prototype into the real thing.
Another thing, ipython is an interactive python environment. You
can launch ipython
with command line flags to import the right modules on start up.
Then, possibly, you can
alias pylab to ipython --someflags, gives it a nice feel and you
don't have to explain to
students about importing different stuff before anything actually
works.
As far as FiPy is concerned, it could be just another module you
pull into pylab when needed.
Cheers
Daniel
On Sep 28, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Daniel Lewis wrote:
Hi Both,
I'm going to ATTEMPT to get FiPy installed on my graduate
student's computers
for the advanced kinetics class.
This will be HIGHLY experimental and I have no idea if it will all
work.
I have one graduate student who will help me develop/design
example problems.
Again, this is HIGHLY experimental and I cannot foresee if it will
all come together...
(I've started and deleted this e-mail 10 times, but, finally I
think it will get into the
ethernet...)
Dan
Dan Lewis
Assistant Professor
Materials Research Center, Room 110
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rpi.edu/~lewisd2
518-276-2297
Daniel Wheeler
