On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:43 PM, kirby urner wrote:
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> What does the robot look like I wonder. Open source? API? Yes, I
> should Google, but I'm trying to track a "Django in the real world"
> workshop at the moment. Pycon. Packed room. They're showing the
> slide that scares me th
Hey excellent questions Gary, expect others will pipe up.
What I see as a challenge with Python is precisely its liberal nature,
as coders from earlier generations, cutting teeth in BASIC or FORTRAN,
find there's sufficient procedural syntax to sort of barrel ahead with
the same kind of thinking,
Gary Pajer wrote:
... Just this past weekend I was wondering where I could find such things,
that is, help at learning good ways to structure a python program (for
generic python, not specifically Django), written for the non-programmer
scientist/educator. When I write my programs I always fe
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:34 PM, kirby urner wrote:
> Hey excellent questions Gary, expect others will pipe up.
>
> What I see as a challenge with Python is precisely its liberal nature,
> as coders from earlier generations, cutting teeth in BASIC or FORTRAN,
> find there's sufficient procedural s
There's the design patterns literature, sometimes fun to just eyeball
so you get used to seeing patterns, even if different from the ones
described.
In some of my venues, there's a rule against any one person getting to
code a whole project i.e. deliberate management strategy to force a
minimum of
I'm wondering what others on this list think of this non-standard use
of "teaching" when talking about programming a computer.
The authors say we're "teaching" the computer
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Every teacher knows that one of the best ways to
understand something is to teach it to someone else. But
teaching a
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:05 PM, kirby urner wrote:
> I'm wondering what others on this list think of this non-standard use
> of "teaching" when talking about programming a computer.
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> The authors say we're "teaching" the computer
I have a very simple take on this. It is an imperfect analogy
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Gary Pajer wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:34 PM, kirby urner wrote:
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>> Hey excellent questions Gary, expect others will pipe up.
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>> What I see as a challenge with Python is precisely its liberal nature,
>> as coders from earlier generations, cutting teeth
Yeah, I think you're wise to point out it's all about context.
Wittgenstein was saying much the same thing as Peirce et al, i.e.
meaning is not a word attribute, comes through in the namespace taken
as a whole, e.g. to understand the meaning of "a pawn" in chess, you
need to know chess (the game).
In a message of Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:50:09 EDT, Gary Pajer writes:
>But to clarify: I've been programming in python for about six years, alo
>ng
>the way abandoning Matlab in which I was a local go-to guy. By the way,
>I've also adopted Traits and the Enthought Tool Suite, which IMHO might
>possi
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