Re: [Edu-sig] Elevator Demo for Python

2009-10-05 Thread kirby urner
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Phil Wagner wrote: >> Often I am asked for a quick demonstration about the power of Python, >> sometimes for people with no computer science background. What can I show >> them that doesn't take too much time

Re: [Edu-sig] Elevator Demo for Python

2009-10-05 Thread kirby urner
Me: > Also, J is significantly different from APL, just just in terms of > using ASCII instead of those non-Latin-1 operators, however once again > the family grouping is correct. > "not just in terms of" ... here's a link to that paper Iverson helped me with: http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/Jlan

Re: [Edu-sig] Elevator Demo for Python

2009-10-05 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Phil Wagner wrote: > Often I am asked for a quick demonstration about the power of Python, > sometimes for people with no computer science background. What can I show > them that doesn't take too much time but gets the point across that Python > is a good fit for m

Re: [Edu-sig] Elevator Demo for Python

2009-10-05 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:58:10 CDT, Phil Wagner writes: >--===1754152315== >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001485f80f0aa9546d0470d25bc >3 > >--001485f80f0aa9546d0470d25bc3 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Often I

[Edu-sig] Elevator Demo for Python

2009-10-05 Thread Phil Wagner
Often I am asked for a quick demonstration about the power of Python, sometimes for people with no computer science background. . What can I show them that doesn't take too much time but gets the point across that Python is a good fit for math/education? Phil