Re: [Edu-sig] Introducing Python to Engineering Students

2008-03-11 Thread Rob Malouf
) and then loads the C part when you run mandel.py. You (or your students) don't need to remember where the python headers are or how to build a shared library on whatever platform they're using. --- Rob Malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages San

Re: [Edu-sig] Introducing Python to Engineering Students

2008-03-11 Thread Rob Malouf
(along with careful profiling and optimization), I can often get essentially the same performance from pure Python that I can get from mixed Python/C solutions, and with much less trouble. --- Rob Malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages San Diego

Re: [Edu-sig] More on graphics with graphics.py (Zelle's)

2007-02-12 Thread Rob Malouf
curriculum, what makes you think you're entitled to an opinion about my syllabus? --- Rob Malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages San Diego State University ___ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http

[Edu-sig] Python outside computer science

2007-02-12 Thread Rob Malouf
that mean some of the more advanced material would have to be cut from the end of the sequence to make it fit in three semesters. How do other non-CS computational programs work? What are some of your experiences? --- Rob Malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle

Re: [Edu-sig] Tkinter window behind IDLE under Mac OS X

2007-01-30 Thread Rob Malouf
Hi, Are you using pythonw (rather than python) to start the interpreter? --- Rob Malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages San Diego State University On Jan 30, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Peter Drake wrote: I tried running this directly from a terminal

Re: [Edu-sig] FYI: PataPata postmortem link

2006-11-27 Thread Rob Malouf
a function definition persistently, for instance, or add a function definition. You can still explore and poke around in the process any way you want, but you don't have complete power. Sounds a lot like a LISP Machine Have you looked into those for UI ideas? --- Rob Malouf [EMAIL

Re: [Edu-sig] Migrating to Projects - Was: Low Enrollments - programming as anti-intellectualism

2005-11-04 Thread Rob Malouf
not 100% successful, but that's okay: our graduates generally either go on for a PhD somewhere else, or they get a job with a computer company managing internationalization or something like that. -- Rob Malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages San Diego State

Re: [Edu-sig] Low Enrollments - programming as anti-intellectualism

2005-11-04 Thread Rob Malouf
the archives couldn't be searchable on-line like that someday. -- Rob Malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages San Diego State University ___ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu

Re: [Edu-sig] Low Enrollments - programming as anit-intellectualism.

2005-11-02 Thread Rob Malouf
our current students are 30, just like all those laser disks we have are obsolete now. But so what? They're not teaching .net, they're just using it to develop new ways of teaching languages, which is about as liberal-education-y a goal as you can get. -- Rob Malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department