On Apr 18, 2006, at 5:14 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:Does that help? It does. Thanks -- and also to others who answered my request for ammo, in case I get to engage on the Python side. I don't think my CompSci is going to listen to a Prof of English, and I can't push too hard; but it's good to be
On 18 Apr 2006, at 22:14, Christopher Barker wrote:
> 1) A lot of people can benefit from knowing how to do some programming
> that are not ever going to be computer scientists or professional
> programmers: Python gives them a very useful tool for a wide variety of
> programming needs, without t
Charles Hartman wrote:
>> Actually, I am using Matlab, which is dynamically typed as well, in
>> some of my courses and I know it works well until types become
>> important.
Matlab is a far cry from Python, as a programing language. Indeed, until
recent versions, it was not the least bit dynami
Charles wrote:
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I've been campaigning with the main teacher of programming on my campus
-- from my thoroughly non-leveraged position as prof of English -- to consider
switching from Java to Python, for all the reasons which will be obvious to
everybody here. (The existen
I've been campaigning with the main teacher of programming on my campus -- from my thoroughly non-leveraged position as prof of English -- to consider switching from Java to Python, for all the reasons which will be obvious to everybody here. (The existence of "wxPython in Action" is the decisive e
