On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:45 PM, jim leisy wrote:
> Hi there, Kirby--Happy 2009. Obama says it all.
>
> FYI--we have published a book that transitions from a first course using
> Python to a data structures course using C++.
> The title is Data Structures and Algorithms using Python and C++. David
You sound like a brave man roberto. You've come to the right place. :)
Kirby
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:11 PM, roberto wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:24 AM, kirby urner wrote:
>> For some of it, I'd expect to switch more into a "music appreciation"
>> mode i.e. we spend too little time ex
So here's more computer algebra, ready for phase-in, base camps in the
Columbia Gorge (like computer camps for girl scouts, astronomy
encouraged).
You can project computer languages around the campfire if you have the
right equipment, bed sheet between trees, but that's really a lot of
work probab
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:24 AM, kirby urner wrote:
> For some of it, I'd expect to switch more into a "music appreciation"
> mode i.e. we spend too little time explaining why on earth we do so
> much around polynomials, make them an in-depth vocational exercise
> without promising anything speci
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:44 AM, David MacQuigg
wrote:
<< SNIP >>
> I had no idea these little laptops could run Linux. Cool.
>
> -- Dave
Future tell all journalism needed but there's a lot of RedHat under
the hood, Python too slow for an operating system, an agile, needs an
aquarium to play s
At 09:33 PM 1/22/2009 -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:09 PM, David MacQuigg wrote:
>> I'm putting together a list of topics for a proposed course entitled
>> "Programming for Scientists and Engineers". See the link to CS2 under
>> http://ece.arizona.edu/~edatools/index_cl
