Re: [Edu-sig] Sage, SciPy or continue with MatLab ???

2010-02-02 Thread David MacQuigg
Hi Bill, Yes, I am interested. Please send copies or links of your papers and anecdotal evidence. Comments from former students would be especially interesting. It might be nice to compare the reactions of CS majors to majors in other departments. I'm a little surprised the Python student

Re: [Edu-sig] Sage, SciPy or continue with MatLab ???

2010-02-01 Thread Bill Punch
Regarding conformity. When we moved the introductory course (used by both CS majors and non-majors) to Python, one of the criteria was to ensure as little changes to the subsequent curricula as possible. This obviously made the change much more palatable to the faculty. Thus the following course, C

Re: [Edu-sig] Sage, SciPy or continue with MatLab ???

2010-02-01 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:45 PM, David MacQuigg wrote: > kirby urner wrote: >> ... > > I'm putting together a proposal for a freshman-level course in CS. >  Currently we have three courses - one for CS majors (Java), one for > computer engineers (C), and one for physics and astronomy (C).   Matla

[Edu-sig] Sage, SciPy or continue with MatLab ???

2010-02-01 Thread David MacQuigg
kirby urner wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:05 AM, michel paul wrote: << SNIP >> Again, one of the things I truly love about Sage is that at its core, it is pure Python. I was delighted with something one of my FST students said. I had been using Sage as my blackboard in class, and th