Re: [Edu-sig] project Euler

2009-02-12 Thread Steven Bird
think the problems are unmotivated and the result of doing any problem is almost useless. I think newcomers to programming find externally-motivated problems more compelling, especially when the solution is elegant and not bogged down in housekeeping or corner cases. -Steven Bird

[Edu-sig] Python and Linguistics

2008-12-20 Thread Steven Bird
just been released, and is available at http://www.nltk.org/ -Steven Bird http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~sb/ ___ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig

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

2008-03-11 Thread Steven Bird
We're considering this book for adoption in a second year programming course for Engineers: Numerical Methods in Engineering with Python by Jaan Kiusalaas http://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Methods-Engineering-Python-Kiusalaas/dp/0521852870 Steven Bird http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~sb/ On 3/11

[Edu-sig] Python for Natural Language Processing

2007-10-16 Thread Steven Bird
NLTK-Lite version 0.9 has been released -- http://nltk.org/index.php NLTK -- the Natural Language Toolkit -- is a suite of open source Python modules, data and documentation for research and development in natural language processing. NLTK contains code supporting dozens of NLP tasks, along with

Re: [Edu-sig] list newbie

2006-05-28 Thread Steven Bird
have a nice clean window. But then you lose the session. You could recover the session by re-entering the necessary lines (e.g. importing modules, defining variables), but that leaves us with the original problem... -Steven Bird ___ Edu-sig mailing

Re: [Edu-sig] list newbie

2006-05-27 Thread Steven Bird
which lets you scroll down so that the only line shown is at the very top of the window -Steven Bird ___ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig