Re: [Edu-sig] Progamming advice. (Was: Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python)

2009-04-07 Thread macquigg
Gary Pajer wrote: But to clarify: I've been programming in python for about six years, along the way abandoning Matlab in which I was a local go-to guy. By the way, I've also adopted Traits and the Enthought Tool Suite, which IMHO might possibly be the future of practical laboratory

Re: [Edu-sig] Progamming advice. (Was: Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python)

2009-04-07 Thread Gary Pajer
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote: In a message of Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:50:09 EDT, Gary Pajer writes: But to clarify: I've been programming in python for about six years, alo ng the way abandoning Matlab in which I was a local go-to guy. By the way, I've

Re: [Edu-sig] Progamming advice. (Was: Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python)

2009-04-06 Thread kirby urner
Hey excellent questions Gary, expect others will pipe up. What I see as a challenge with Python is precisely its liberal nature, as coders from earlier generations, cutting teeth in BASIC or FORTRAN, find there's sufficient procedural syntax to sort of barrel ahead with the same kind of thinking,

Re: [Edu-sig] Progamming advice. (Was: Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python)

2009-04-06 Thread Scott David Daniels
Gary Pajer wrote: ... Just this past weekend I was wondering where I could find such things, that is, help at learning good ways to structure a python program (for generic python, not specifically Django), written for the non-programmer scientist/educator. When I write my programs I always

Re: [Edu-sig] Progamming advice. (Was: Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python)

2009-04-06 Thread Gary Pajer
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:34 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote: Hey excellent questions Gary, expect others will pipe up. What I see as a challenge with Python is precisely its liberal nature, as coders from earlier generations, cutting teeth in BASIC or FORTRAN, find there's

Re: [Edu-sig] Progamming advice. (Was: Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python)

2009-04-06 Thread kirby urner
There's the design patterns literature, sometimes fun to just eyeball so you get used to seeing patterns, even if different from the ones described. In some of my venues, there's a rule against any one person getting to code a whole project i.e. deliberate management strategy to force a minimum