// begin google plug If you want a really quick intro to geo + python before delving into other advanced stuff, we have a geo data store + admin UI running on google app engine here: http://geodatastore.appspot.com
Code is here: http://code.google.com/p/geodatastore - pamela // end google plug On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Ivan Lucena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Renee, > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:geowanking- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R E Sieber >> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 5:14 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Geowanking] Need some advice >> >> Hi Everybody, >> >> I need some advice. I've got a second year geography undergraduate doing >> a three month internship. I want him to do something with the Geoweb and >> with Python. He knows ESRI products (okay, ArcGIS 9.2) and a tiny bit of >> programming/scripting but that's it. As some of you know, I've got a >> grant to investigate the potential of the Geoweb to enable a dialogue >> between government and the public around issues of environmental/climate >> change. So it'd be good if his work could support the grant. Can you >> think an encapsulated thing that he could do in that time? >> > > On that other matter: > >> On another related matter, I'm part of a Microsoft initiative to >> determine what computer education should be taught to the next >> generation of scientists who are not computer scientists or software >> engineers. Obviously, I'm interested in the kinds of computing skills >> that geography/environment students would need to move from Web 1.0 >> GIS/mapping to the Geoweb. It's a challenge because of the limited >> number of non-major courses a student can take and the number of >> pre-requisites that are often required of cs or engineering courses. >> It's also a challenge because I would want them to essentially learn how >> to learn about software so even non-geeks can move with the innovations >> in Web 2.0 (3.0?). I'd appreciate any thoughts you might have. > > I found that initiative here very interesting: > > """ Software Carpentry > Many scientists and engineers spend much of their lives programming, but only > a handful have ever been taught how to do this well. As a result, they spend > their time wrestling with software, instead of doing research, but have no > idea how reliable or efficient their programs are. > """ http://www.swc.scipy.org/ > > And most of the material is based on Python. > > Wish you success, > > Ivan > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > -- Don't miss Google's biggest developer event of the year: http://code.google.com/events/io _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
