As a very small response to this question. My name is Cory Dominguez and I am a physics major at University of California at Santa Cruz. I am new to this group but I am interested in contributing. This quarter I am taking a class is Computational Physics where we have mainly looked at numerical analysis with c++ and for the second half of the quarter we get a crash course in Mathematica and do some symbolic analysis. I had heard of Sage through my various stumbles around the internet and I am a great fan of python. At least at my university, none of the professors I have talked to even know of the open source tools available today. They rely instead on software like Mathematica and Maple. I really wish that I had been aware of software like matplotlib, numpy, and sympy during my lower division courses. I think it could of increased my understanding tremendously. In my opinion if you make undergraduates aware of these tools and they are allowed to get used to them as they take their fundamental courses, then you lay a good foundation for this group in the future. I remember how stoked I was to get a TI-89 calculator, learning about sympy was like christmas.
Cheers, Cory On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:51 AM, SherjilOzair <[email protected]>wrote: > A very smart and to-the-point question, Matthew. I've been wanting the > answer to this question myself when working on my project. The answer > to this question is critical for code writing. > > Another issue I would like to raise, that I believe is related to this > topic, is a phrase in the Sympy Mission, > > "… while keeping the code as simple as possible in order to be > comprehensible and easily extensible." > > How do we, as coders, follow this maxim ? Do we sacrifice performance > for readability ? Or is this line just their to emphasize our choice > of choosing python as our language. A notable example which doesnt > follow this guideline is the Polys internals. Comments ? > > As to the original question, is there any data of where/how Sympy is > used ? > If not, can we start collecting such data ? > > Thanks Matthew, once again, to raise such an important question. > > -Sherjil Ozair > > On May 12, 8:14 pm, Matthew Rocklin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do we have a clear understanding of who our userbase is? > > > > Is SymPy being used for education? for research in academia? in industry? > I > > imagine the answer is that "yes, it's being used in all of those places". > > Does anyone know the extent to which it's used in these contexts? While > > designing I'd like to know what audience I should target. > > > > Best, > > -Matt > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
