On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 4:19 PM Matt Calhoun <calhoun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone! I have been using numpy for an extremely long time, but this > is the first time emailing the list. I recently released the beta version > of my free open source math app called math inspector, and so far the > response has been really amazing, it was on the front page of hacker news > all day sunday and went from 15 stars to 348 on GitHub since then. I > wanted to reach out to the community to find out if people like this > project, have any feedback/suggestions/feature requests, or would possibly > be interested in placing a link to the website (mathinspector.com) on the > numpy homepage. > > Math inspector is a python interpreter which contains a frozen version of > python and numpy, this makes it very easy for non-technical people to get > started, it also creates a block coding environment which represents the > memory of the running program. This block coding environment is at such a > high level of generality that it's capable of working for all of python. > It also has an interactive graphing system made in pygame which updates and > modernizes all of the functionality in matplotlib. This graphing system is > it's own stand alone module by the way. Math inspector also has a > documentation browser which creates a beautiful interactive experience for > exploring the documentation. > > Everything in math inspector has been designed specifically for > numpy, even though it works for all of python. I started it 2 years ago > when I got really confused after searching through the numpy website, and I > wanted to build a system where I could dig into the modules in a directory > file type structure that was highly organized. From there everything just > took off. > > The main goal of this project is to support the mathematics education > community on youtube, by providing a free tool that everyone can use to > share code samples for their videos, but I believe it has a wide range of > additional applications for scientific computing as well. > > I have been working really hard on this project, and I really hope > everyone likes it! > > You can find the full source code on the GitHub page: > https://github.com/MathInspector/MathInspector > > Cheers! > - Matt > Somewhat off topic, but this brought to mind Model Based Design <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-based_design>. MBD is a different subject, but I suspect the same underlying tools used for MathInspector might be useful. Chuck
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