Re: [Edu-sig] Python for Philosophers

My degree is in Math and Philosophy. Most of the Foundations of Mathematics courses were in the Philosophy department back then, including a lot of what turned into Computer Science. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:25, kirby urner wrote: > I've been seeing some conversations aimed at expanding the Pyt

Re: [Edu-sig] Practice Programs/Problems

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:44 PM, kirby urner wrote: << trim >> > The little challenges posed to students in this annual contest are > pretty good.  I should do more to get them on the web someplace, had > earlier contacted their author for a PDF version -- let's see if I can > find it, get perm

Re: [Edu-sig] Practice Programs/Problems

Hi Kristin, not a book, but Project Euler () is a great repository of mathematical problems ordered by difficulty and designed to be solved by programs. Many of the problems would make excellent starting points for being expanded into deeper programming exercises

Re: [Edu-sig] Practice Programs/Problems

Kristin Baaki wrote: I was hoping someone could recommend a book of practice programs/problems. I've been creating all my class exercises and large programming projects on my own and at times I've run out of ideas. If someone could point me in the right directions I'd appreciate it. We ha

Re: [Edu-sig] Python for Philosophers

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Laura Creighton wrote: > I think that a course in Epistemology that ended up in Bayesian > logic and probability would be pretty cool. > > Laura > > Agreed. This was a topic at OS Bridge this summer, which I unfortunately didn't manage to attend: http://opensou

Re: [Edu-sig] Practice Programs/Problems

Are web resources OK, and programs/problems in what area? Just generic "help me learn Python" type problems? The little challenges posed to students in this annual contest are pretty good. I should do more to get them on the web someplace, had earlier contacted their author for a PDF version --

Re: [Edu-sig] Practice Programs/Problems

In a message of Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:15:31 -0400, Kristin Baaki writes: >--===2029537282== >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001485f6cc72512f6b0477039e5 >3 > >--001485f6cc72512f6b0477039e53 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >Hi All, > >I was hoping someone coul

[Edu-sig] Practice Programs/Problems

Hi All, I was hoping someone could recommend a book of practice programs/problems. I've been creating all my class exercises and large programming projects on my own and at times I've run out of ideas. If someone could point me in the right directions I'd appreciate it. Thank you in advance, Kr

Re: [Edu-sig] Python for Philosophers

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:25 AM, kirby urner wrote: << trim >> ADDENDUM: > > [0] http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20090831.140043.d7465e01.en.html > I acknowledge in advance that some here may send up a red flag re my citing of a post by Xah Lee. The late Arthur Siegel mentioned him a way

Re: [Edu-sig] Python for Philosophers

I think that a course in Epistemology that ended up in Bayesian logic and probability would be pretty cool. Laura ___ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig

[Edu-sig] Python for Philosophers

I've been seeing some conversations aimed at expanding the Python community (the community of Python users) beyond the world of computer science and IT, into the Liberal Arts more generally.[0] Of course this is music to my ears. Parallel to this notion that ordinary math learning would be enhanc