Ray Pierrehumbert is using Python to teach undergraduate courses in
atmospheric science (a survey of climate physics) at the University of
Chicago, and is writing a book based on it.
Ray tells me his publisher did not allow any Python in the text, so he had
to write pseudocode in the text, but Py
On 2/13/07, Peter Bowyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 06:46 13/02/2007, kirby urner wrote:
>Flash forward: have you seen O'Reilly's 'Head First' series and
>its use of icons, sidebars, jokes, diagrams, different type faces,
>more icons? Way more "right brained" than traditional CS books,
>by
On 13-Feb-07, at 12:33 AM, Laura Creighton wrote:
> We sat up at my house one night trying to figure out what would be
> the best way to introduce python and ended up with 'string
> processing' --
> or language processing in general.
Apropos of this, there is David Mertz' Text Processing in P
At 06:46 13/02/2007, kirby urner wrote:
>Flash forward: have you seen O'Reilly's 'Head First' series and
>its use of icons, sidebars, jokes, diagrams, different type faces,
>more icons? Way more "right brained" than traditional CS books,
>by a long shot, but just as technical and deep (into Java
In a message of Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:31:09 PST, Rob Malouf writes:
>To turn things in a more constructive direction, let me start what I
>hope will be a new discussion...
>[...] What books are the biologists using?
Andrew Dalke has been writing his own course materials for teaching
python to bio
On 2/12/07, Rob Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To turn things in a more constructive direction, let me start what I
hope will be a new discussion...
If I might be permitted to riff off your queries re our snake and
computational linguistics, I want to mention that Jason Cunliffe
and I, bo
To turn things in a more constructive direction, let me start what I
hope will be a new discussion...
Most of what goes on on this list takes as a starting point that the
primary goal is to teach Python programming, or programming in general,
or computer science, or something in that vein. I'
