is
interested. It is sad to see VPython atrophy right now, but I'm sure
that the ideas in it will find a home somewhere, whether the code
does or not.
[1] http://www.web3d.org/
[2] http://www.avimator.com/
[3] http://orange.blender.org/
--Dethe
On 9-Oct-06, at 10:16 AM, Arthur Siegel wrote
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 10:54 -0700, Dethe Elza wrote:My other hope for
VPython would be to build it on a more capable 3D
system, such as Ogre or Panda3D (Mike Fletcher keeps a large list of
such systems: http://www.vrplumber.com/py3d.py). In this scenario,
VPython would be an easier entry
Just wanted to make sure that appropriate folks were aware of Titus
Brown's request @:
http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/oct-06/python-in-cs-1
In short, he is in discussion with Michigan State regarding a faculty
position and teaching CS101 with Python has come up in those
discussions, and he is
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 10:00 -0700, kirby urner wrote:
handle1 = ['coffee','sugar','cream']
handle2 = handle1
id(handle1)
13645944
id(handle2)
13645944
I always thought that when presenting this it is natural and important -
in order for the student to truly get it - to do an as
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 16:04 -0700, kirby urner wrote:
Anyway, I would advocate the as opposed to be integrated into such a
presentation.
Art
Actually *duplicating* a piece of memory (wasteful?), to make the same
contents reside elsewhere (why?), with its own handles, is considered
a
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 16:04 -0700, kirby urner wrote:
Or we might import the copy module.
Or we might take the whole thing as a slice i.e. newlist = oldlist[:].
I used the list(handle1) alternative purposefully, based on Alex
Martelli's position on the matter.
The first time I heard him
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 21:36 -0500, John Zelle wrote:
It may not be on that scale, but it would certainly cause me to survey the
language landscape again to see if there are better languages for teaching.
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 09:45 -0500, Peter Chase wrote:
If you want to expose your
