Re: [Edu-sig] Properties use case

2006-03-22 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:58:52 CST, Michael Tobis writes: While PyPy is a most admirable endeavor, I can't imagine that it can resolve this problem. I'll be most pleased to discover that I am wrong, so please correct me. Is scientific programming a target usage of PyPy? Yes. In

Re: [Edu-sig] Properties use case

2006-03-22 Thread Arthur
-Original Message- From: Laura Creighton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] We don't -- at least right now -- want to replace these cases where you use numeric because you really need a lot of linear algebra. Actually, the way I see it, there will be a significant benefit even when

[Edu-sig] No Learning Patents

2006-03-22 Thread Laura Creighton
Some of you may be interested in signing this: http://www.noelearningpatents.net/ I will paste in the first paragraph so that this article looks much less like 'buy me' spam. What is this? This petition aims to alert European authorities and policy-makers to

[Edu-sig] python wrappers for gecode

2006-03-22 Thread Laura Creighton
Somebody was looking for these earlier. According to the bottom of this message, Logilab has a primative version of this now. Laura --- Forwarded Message Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-Date: Wed Mar 22 16:43:13 2006 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Python-logic]

Re: [Edu-sig] python wrappers for gecode

2006-03-22 Thread Grégoire Dooms
Laura Creighton wrote: Somebody was looking for these earlier. According to the bottom of this message, Logilab has a primative version of this now. It is available at http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/lib/logic/gecode_wrapper/ You should however know that it is very preliminary and

[Edu-sig] Preview of Shuttleworth Summit (edu-sig exclusive)

2006-03-22 Thread kirby urner
Exclusive to edu-sig: Here's a sneak peak at what I'm kicking around in advance of the upcoming Shuttleworth summit in London, which is about getting our favorite snake more puppeteer-programmers in South Africa (as a means to an end, not as an end in itself, i.e. lots of other languages in

Re: [Edu-sig] Brainstorming about GNU Math

2006-03-22 Thread ajsiegel
Kirby writes - And it's not just programming that's kept at bay, but computer graphics and animation. The pre-college mainstream remains strangely bereft of serious-minded spatial geometry It's frustrating how close and far we are from each other on this particular point, at the same time.

Re: [Edu-sig] Brainstorming about GNU Math

2006-03-22 Thread ajsiegel
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] And since we are talking about working within the academy, I think it important we have our facts straight, in terms of attribution of ideas. Normally, BTW I'd agree with you. Why give away a thing. In this case, though, I think we

Re: [Edu-sig] Brainstorming about GNU Math

2006-03-22 Thread kirby urner
You insist - it seems to me (not directly in the quote above, but generally) - on making this a Fuller thing, and as such, something visionary, a bit rebelous, and certainly outside/beyond the of thinking of mainstream math educators. Yeah, that's sort of my schtick. I think it's

Re: [Edu-sig] python wrappers for gecode

2006-03-22 Thread Mark Engelberg
Thanks for mentioning this. Please keep us apprised when the wrapper is ready for mainstream use. --Mark ___ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig

Re: [Edu-sig] Brainstorming about GNU Math

2006-03-22 Thread ajsiegel
- Original Message - From: kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Again, we can be ships passing in the night on this. My venture into the Bermuda Triangle of synergetic geometry is in the don't try this @ home category i.e. it's not for everyone. More like an Xtreme sport [tm]. Fun

Re: [Edu-sig] Pickling Polyhedra

2006-03-22 Thread kirby urner
Note: Stu and Cary's Design Science Toys inventory, including the industrial equipment for making more inventory, burned to the ground, heavy metal melted. I filed an account directly from Cary to Synergeo awhile back (a Yahoo! group). Here's the link, if you manage to get past Yahoo's!

[Edu-sig] From europython -- should we do Python for kids?

2006-03-22 Thread Laura Creighton
I think doing this would be fun. Since the CFP hasn't gone out yet, we haven't really organised ourselves all that well yet. But I think that Introductory Python is a good idea. I wonder if a separate Python-for-the-kids section would be good as well, and how many kids we could get to

Re: [Edu-sig] From europython -- should we do Python for kids?

2006-03-22 Thread Gregor Lingl
Laura Creighton schrieb: I think doing this would be fun. Since the CFP hasn't gone out yet, we haven't really organised ourselves all that well yet. But I think that Introductory Python is a good idea. I wonder if a separate Python-for-the-kids section would be good as well, and how

[Edu-sig] Livewires question

2006-03-22 Thread Mark Engelberg
I just checked out the book Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner to see some examples of the livewires package in use. The book says that the version of livewires it uses has been modified to be even simpler than the original. Does anyone here know the precise changes that the author

Re: [Edu-sig] From europython -- should we do Python for kids?

2006-03-22 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:17:42 +0100, Gregor Lingl writes: Laura Creighton schrieb: I think doing this would be fun. Since the CFP hasn't gone out yet, we haven't really organised ourselves all that well yet. But I think that Introductory Python is a good idea. I wonder if a