[Edu-sig] Re: Python in K-12: good news (they're using Jupyter)

2024-01-25 Thread Wes Turner
Notebooks and Spreadsheets often lack test assertions; which are critical to quality "Spreadsheet errors can have disastrous consequences – yet we keep making them" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132512 """ What are some Software Development methods for reducing errors: 1.

[Edu-sig] Re: Python in K-12: good news (they're using Jupyter)

2024-01-25 Thread kirby urner
Thanks for jumping in David. I concur, the Excel environment is a productive "home base" for deriving the visualizations and is in many cases is sufficient. In the Office model, one is then expected to embed said visualizations in a Word document, perhaps exporting to PDF, if wanting to add more

[Edu-sig] Re: Python in K-12: good news (they're using Jupyter)

2024-01-25 Thread David MacQuigg
Hello Kirby Jupyter is excellent, but I still wish there was a simple built-in charting tool in Python. Jupyter is like Sketchup, a tool I use once a year, but not enough to justify keeping up on it. My work now is focused on nuclear power