hi David, David MacQuigg wrote: > Our mandelbrot demo is working nicely, thanks to all the help I've gotten > from folks on this list. We are using only the weave package, not the full > SciPy install. It would be nice to show some additional examples from SciPy, > however, especially tools that students will find useful in later classes. > > The problem is I'm not sure SciPy is ready for prime time in the > undergraduate curriculum. It will look bad if this package is not as good as > Matlab, which is what the students at U of A are using in many of their other > courses. I would like to get some opinions on this issue from others who may > have been here before. > > Here are my experiences so far in getting started with SciPy, trying to run > it as I expect our students would, on their own machines rather than the > department's Solaris machines. > > 1) I'm using a Windows XP machine, similar to what most of the students are > using, so anything we want them to install on their own computers must work > under Windows, or at least under Cygwin. Most students don't have Cygwin > installed, but we can consider that as part of the package if we decide to go > that route. Cygwin adds benefits beyond SciPy, of course, but disk space may > be an issue. > > I started about a year ago with the Enthought edition http://code.enthought.com/enthon/ under windows-XP, 4 machines some SP1, some SP2, used embedded in Delphi, as a direct replacement for embedded Matlab, everything worked like a charm. In fact everything worked so well, that about 3 months ago, I decided to make a pure Python (open source) LabView equivalent with it (should be released in a couple of weeks). In the meanwhile I also tried to update Scipy, but Enthought switched to the eggs-philosophy, which seems to be a big disaster to me ( so I rolled everything back to the orginal Entought suite).
I think if you send this message to the Scipy list, you get an answer of Robert Kern himself within half an hour (if he is awake ;-) cheers, Stef Mientki _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
