Re: [Edu-sig] school physics/math courses

2008/10/17 michel paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "We should abandon the vision that physicists seek an ultimate mathematical > description of the universe since it is not obvious that it exists. I disagree with this attitude. We can seek an ultimate mathematical description, since it is not obvious t

Re: [Edu-sig] school physics/math courses

"We should abandon the vision that physicists seek an ultimate mathematical description of the universe since it is not obvious that it exists. The job of the physicist is that of modeling phenomena within the physical scales of observed events. For some systems, the modeling can be done more effe

[Edu-sig] pseudo code that runs

For reasons I won't bore you with, my principal and dept chair called a meeting with me regarding my use of Python in math classes. Bottom line - a positive dialog. My principal asked, "What is Python?" I gave him as good an answer as I could at that moment. Later, after some reflection, this i

Re: [Edu-sig] Scapy on Windows

I'm guessing most of us on this list aren't using Scapy so you might get a quicker answer if you found a bevy of Scapy users on some Scapy list. I assume you know about sys.path and your gnuplot is on it? Not an expert on anything Visual Studio though, as my Visual FoxPro was never subsumed by tha

[Edu-sig] Scapy on Windows

Hi, I'm having lot of trouble to get Scapy run on Windows. I have tried to do all thisthings. Scapy says it cannot find gnupot and pcap module. Although I installed gnuplot I still don't know why it can't find it? Then comes t

Re: [Edu-sig] school physics/math courses

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:15 AM, roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello > (i am rather new in python ...) Have you looked at NumPy and SciPy yet? Or anything written using them? > i am about to start a course of physics and math for students aged > 14-17 (high school) > and i am deeply intere