On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 2:49:44 PM UTC-5, wrong.a...@gmail.com wrote: > I am mostly getting positive feedback for Python. > ...
I'm surprised no one has mentioned jupyter yet, so here goes ... A browser-based notebook, see http://www.jupyter.org I think this is an unparalleled way to learn Python, by experimentation at the start and for development later. As an example, I wanted to do some table processing, so a couple of lines to experiment with Pandas reading CSV files, then a couple of more lines to start processing the data ... What a wonderful way to experimentally develop software ... Can even develop simple GUIs *really* easily (but packaging for distribution is probably not easy, unless distribution is only within an organization and that organization can run a private notebook server). If you want to try it, this page http://jupyter.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html recommends installing Anaconda Python which installs a *lot* of stuff (numpy, scipy, sympy, pandas, etc. etc.) I highly recommend both (I use them for Civil Engineering (structures) software and teach a related university course) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
