Hi, In little more than one year I'll become a teacher in informatics for 14 - 16 year-olds (and math, history for 12-15y). Nowadays these pupils get Word, Excel and Pascal. Few hours are actually spent on programming. I would like to change this into oooWriter, oooCalc and Python (and perhaps a little more, depending on the strength of my class). Now, before we graduate, everybody needs to write a paper. These subjects are on my list: * Learn Python - a studybook with theory, examples and exercises -- Idea: The last lessons the pupils can make a simple game, building on functions they saw that year ->Math: The possibility to use python in my math class, for instance as a plotter, calculating surface, drawing figures ... (In my spare time I would like to write a GeoGebra like program, in Python. Still theoretical though ...) * Learn Writer - just a replacement for Word -- Idea: python-uno * Learn Calc - Idem as Writer I am considering to use "Think like a computer scientist" as a basis for my paper. But I am a little stuck on the math and game documentation. Can someone provide me with some links? Also I would like your comments and suggestions on the ideas. Furthermore, what should I integrate, what not? If this works, we could provide teachers with a studybook for python, which makes the step to use the language a lot smaller and therefor easier to make. Regards, Sven PS: My English is a bit rusty. Working on it ...
Hi all, I have developed a web interface for the Matplotlib library in my spare time. I was inspired (or frustrated rather..) to develop it when I was encountering a lot of license error with the Matlab server in my university. It is intended to be a free alternative to Matlab especially geared for teaching mathematics and scientific programming. Obviously it is not as complete as Matlab or other more mature scientific programming environments (R, Maple, Mathematica to name a few), however it comes with several unique benefits: * Zero client side installation. This is an advantage for computer lab/classroom setup where IT administration budget is limited. You just need reasonably recent browser which supports AJAX (IE6+, Mozilla 1.5+) * Online file storage. All of the user files are stored on the server and can be manipulated and edited online. * And it is free You can find an early release at the following URL: http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/santoso/Software.WebLab.html At this stage it is working but with some issues (which will need some serious thinking...). I would be grateful for any suggestion/comments. What I would love to do is to engage some educators to use and push this to be something more mature. I realize this mailing list is rather quiet, hopefully this email can spark some interests. Thanks again, Yusdi _________________________________________________________________ Need a break? Find your escape route with Live Search Maps. http://maps.live.com/?icid=hmtag3
Hi Yusdi, The link for downloading is broken, as it can only be seen locally. Here is what I get: http://localhost/pmwiki/files/webLab_v0.1.zip Please, please, fix it as it looks like something really good that I would love to try!!!! Have you had a look at Crunchy? (http://code.google.com/p/crunchy) It has a similar interface to weblab and one of the development plans for this summer was to develop a "plugin" for Matplotlib. With your permission (I don't know what license you used since I can't download), I would like to see if we can incorporate your program within Crunchy. Or perhaps you'd like to join as a developer to the Crunchy team and do this yourself!? :-) Johannes Woolard, co-developer of Crunchy is an Oxford student (in the computer science department, I believe) is a subscriber to this list. He is currently on holidays but I think he should be back some time next week. You two might be able to meet and discuss face to face about this possibility. We are hoping to get two students to work as part of Google's Summer of Code 2007 on Crunchy development and one of them has some experience with matplotlib already. André (Roberge) On 4/11/07, Yusdi Santoso <yusdi@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I have developed a web interface for the Matplotlib library in my spare time. I was inspired (or frustrated rather..) to develop it when I was encountering a lot of license error with the Matlab server in my university.
It is intended to be a free alternative to Matlab especially geared for teaching mathematics and scientific programming. Obviously it is not as complete as Matlab or other more mature scientific programming environments (R, Maple, Mathematica to name a few), however it comes with several unique benefits: * Zero client side installation. This is an advantage for computer lab/classroom setup where IT administration budget is limited. You just need reasonably recent browser which supports AJAX (IE6+, Mozilla 1.5+) * Online file storage. All of the user files are stored on the server and can be manipulated and edited online. * And it is free
You can find an early release at the following URL: http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/santoso/Software.WebLab.html
At this stage it is working but with some issues (which will need some serious thinking...). I would be grateful for any suggestion/comments. What I would love to do is to engage some educators to use and push this to be something more mature.
I realize this mailing list is rather quiet, hopefully this email can spark some interests. Thanks again,
Yusdi
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Hi André, Thanks for the notification. I have fixed the problem, now you should be getting the right zip file. I have just briefly glanced at the Cruchy website, look very interesting and probably more mature than my current code. It will be interesting to see the two projects come together at certain point. I am currently putting the code under LGPL, personally I don't really care about what licenses to use. What I want is to see the code to be put to a good use. It will be nice to chat with Johannes. Johannes: Feel free to contact me if you want more info. Thanks and best regards, Yusdi _________________________________________________________________ Interest Rates Fall Again! $430,000 Mortgage for $1,399/mo - Calculate new payment http://www.lowermybills.com/lre/index.jsp?sourceid=lmb-9632-18679&moid=7581
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