Re: [Edu-sig] Topics for CS2

2009-02-05 Thread Scott David Daniels
Scott David Daniels wrote: Scott David Daniels wrote: I wrote: In PythonOOP.doc (page 4) you say: There are two pieces of magic that make line 3 work. First, the interpreter has to find the method set_vars. It's not in cat2. Then, the instance cat2 has to be inserted as the first

Re: [Edu-sig] Topics for CS2

2009-01-23 Thread David MacQuigg
At 09:33 PM 1/22/2009 -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:09 PM, David MacQuigg wrote: I'm putting together a list of topics for a proposed course entitled Programming for Scientists and Engineers. See the link to CS2 under

Re: [Edu-sig] Topics for CS2

2009-01-23 Thread kirby urner
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:44 AM, David MacQuigg macqu...@ece.arizona.edu wrote: SNIP I had no idea these little laptops could run Linux. Cool. -- Dave Future tell all journalism needed but there's a lot of RedHat under the hood, Python too slow for an operating system, an agile, needs an

Re: [Edu-sig] Topics for CS2

2009-01-22 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:09 PM, David MacQuigg macqu...@ece.arizona.edu wrote: I'm putting together a list of topics for a proposed course entitled Programming for Scientists and Engineers. See the link to CS2 under http://ece.arizona.edu/~edatools/index_classes.htm. This is intended as a

Re: [Edu-sig] Topics for CS2

2009-01-20 Thread kirby urner
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:52 AM, David MacQuigg macqu...@ece.arizona.edu wrote: [ watching Obama motorcade on CRT to my left, typing to LCD on my laptop ] There may be some misunderstanding as to my purpose in writing this chapter. It is not a CS1 introduction to OOP. I would recommend

Re: [Edu-sig] Topics for CS2

2009-01-20 Thread kirby urner
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:45 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:52 AM, David MacQuigg macqu...@ece.arizona.edu wrote: [ watching Obama motorcade on CRT to my left, typing to LCD on my laptop ] There may be some misunderstanding as to my purpose in

Re: [Edu-sig] Topics for CS2

2009-01-17 Thread David MacQuigg
I've added a few more topics to http://ece.arizona.edu/~edatools/CS2/P4SE.txt, including Black Hole, and Wave-Particle Paradox. Any physicists on the list? I'll do the programming if you can advise me on the physics. H Bomb - start with a bowling ball of LiDT. Squeeze til it goes boom. How

Re: [Edu-sig] Topics for CS2

2009-01-17 Thread kirby urner
Hi David -- I've been looking at your PythonOOP. Why use classes? All programming aside, I think it's a fairly strong grammatical model of how people think, basically in terms of noun.adjective (data attribute) and noun.verb() (callable method). All talk of computer languages aside, we're very

[Edu-sig] Topics for CS2

2009-01-15 Thread David MacQuigg
I'm putting together a list of topics for a proposed course entitled Programming for Scientists and Engineers. See the link to CS2 under http://ece.arizona.edu/~edatools/index_classes.htm. This is intended as a follow-on to an introductory course in either Java or C, so the students will