I'm doing an informal survey on the use of Array Programming Languages for teaching. If you're using NumPy in this manner I'd like to hear from you. What subject was/is taught, academic level, results, lessons learned, etc. Regards, Steve
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:05:58PM -0700, Steven H. Rogers wrote:
I'm doing an informal survey on the use of Array Programming Languages for teaching. If you're using NumPy in this manner I'd like to hear from you. What subject was/is taught, academic level, results, lessons learned, etc.
If Numeric counts, I used that back in 2002 as part of an introductory programming course I wrote for the Department of Physics at Oxford. We really only used to to provide an element-wise array method. Brief introduction: http://pentangle.net/python/pyzine.php The course (aka "Handbook") and report on the course's successes and failures: http://pentangle.net/python/ -- Mike
Thanks Mike: Michael Williams wrote:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:05:58PM -0700, Steven H. Rogers wrote:
I'm doing an informal survey on the use of Array Programming Languages for teaching. If you're using NumPy in this manner I'd like to hear from you. What subject was/is taught, academic level, results, lessons learned, etc.
If Numeric counts, I used that back in 2002 as part of an introductory programming course I wrote for the Department of Physics at Oxford. We really only used to to provide an element-wise array method.
Yes, Numeric and Numarray certainly count. The comments I've received about Matlab and IDL are also welcome.
Brief introduction: http://pentangle.net/python/pyzine.php
The course (aka "Handbook") and report on the course's successes and failures: http://pentangle.net/python/
-- Mike ________ # Steve
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, "Steven H. Rogers" apparently wrote:
I'm doing an informal survey on the use of Array Programming Languages for teaching. If you're using NumPy in this manner I'd like to hear from you. What subject was/is taught, academic level, results, lessons learned, etc.
I'm using NumPy in a PhD level microeconomics course. The students are using numpy primarily for the matrix class. In the past I have used GAUSS. Programming is a fairly small component of the course. Although most of the students have no programming background, they are finding Python and NumPy surprisingly easy to use. Cheers, Alan Isaac
Alan G Isaac wrote:
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, "Steven H. Rogers" apparently wrote:
I'm doing an informal survey on the use of Array Programming Languages for teaching. If you're using NumPy in this manner I'd like to hear from you. What subject was/is taught, academic level, results, lessons learned, etc.
I'm using NumPy in a PhD level microeconomics course. The students are using numpy primarily for the matrix class. In the past I have used GAUSS. Programming is a fairly small component of the course. Although most of the students have no programming background, they are finding Python and NumPy surprisingly easy to use.
Cheers, Alan Isaac
Thanks Alan. May I ask the institution where you're teaching? # Steve
Although I don't teach, I did use NumPy for coding in a grad level CFD course. I found much nicer to use than MATLAB. As the codes get more complex you can introduce code profiling and inline C or FORTRAN. The Python syntax is so clean, you spend more time on the algorithm, less on the syntax. On Feb 27, 11:05 pm, "Steven H. Rogers" <s...@shrogers.com> wrote:
I'm doing an informal survey on the use of Array Programming Languages for teaching. If you're using NumPy in this manner I'd like to hear from you. What subject was/is taught, academic level, results, lessons learned, etc.
Regards, Steve
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