[Chicago] Sympy for Python 3 ???
Mike Tamillow
mikaeltamillow96 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 14:15:59 CEST 2015
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> On Sep 29, 2015, at 9:51 PM, Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> wrote:
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> Hey Will,
>
> Yep, I know you're right. I gotta do some networking and meet the right people who can help me with my future plans to become the greatest programmer in the world! Sarcasm intended. I'll be happy if I can become the greatest programmer in my neighborhood!!! :-)
>
> I sometimes have Sundays free, so right now I'm going to try to attend some of Lane's Sunday Django meetings. Besides, I really NEED to learn some serious web development. So far all I know is Big-O, sorting, the knapsack problem, addition algorithm, KNN-algorithm for machine learning, some divide and conquer stuff, some Unix/Linux stuff, you get the idea. But networking, security, and web development.... you know, how programmers really make their living, so far I know very little about that stuff. I gotta learn the practical stuff in order to get that paycheck. Besides, it looks fun!
>
> I promise Will.... I will do my best to attend some meet-ups. I just hope nobody looks at my programming work and says, "Oh god, there's our little Python retard!" If I end up becoming the Forrest Gump of ChiPy, I won't attend any of the meetings!!!! :-)
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>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 9:31 PM, William E. S. Clemens <wesclemens at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Doug,
>>
>> I strongly recommend that you make time to come to some events. One of biggest strengths of Python is the amazing community behind it. I know that there are events on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday every month. I think that you will find the Chicago group to be extremely friendly and helpful. It is a great group of people to know if you are looking at getting into professional Python development in Chicago post graduation.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Will
>>
>> --
>> William Clemens
>> Phone: 847.485.9455
>> E-mail: wesclemens at gmail.com
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi Joshua,
>>>
>>> My first name is Doug or Douglas, NOT Lewit!!!! LOL!!!!
>>>
>>> It seems like Project Night is usually on a Thursday night, right? Right now my Thursday nights look a little busy. Although I would probably learn more from Project Night than my Informatics professor, but.... he's got that PhD, and I guess those three magic letters means he knows everything about computer science, right? :-)
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Joshua Herman <zitterbewegung at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Dear lewit,
>>>> When do you have time to go to events like project nights in general ? Do you live on campus all of the time? What about going on a weekend or during winter break?
>>>> Sincerely
>>>> Joshua herman
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:05 PM Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> wrote:
>>>>> Exactly! I'm a little nervous about changing my $PATH variable because I'm definitely NOT a Unix administrator! I mean.... I know the basics, like cd, cp, mv, ls, ls -ld -- */, ls | wc -l, and some other cool stuff. But changing $PATH is a little scary to me! On the rare occasion when I do that stuff, I always use Emacs as my text editor. The great thing about Emacs is that when you edit a file, Emacs saves the original with a tilde following the name of the file. So if I want to edit bash.rc I end up with bash.rc and bash.rc~. If I totally screwed up bash.rc, then I just do this:
>>>>>
>>>>> mv bash.rc~ bash.rc
>>>>>
>>>>> That restores the previous bash.rc file. It overwrites the messed up file with the original correct file. BUT in general I'm very nervous about doing system changes like that. I tried doing a dual boot of Ubuntu and Kali Linux a while back. Big mistake!!!! I mistakenly deleted the grub file and then I was really SCREWED!!!! I had to do a fresh install of Ubuntu on my hard drive. That wasn't fun! (Ubuntu is pretty easy to install. Kali Linux is NOT easy to install unless you know a lot about networking, protocols, and other stuff that is currently beyond my knowledge of modern computation.)
>>>>>
>>>>> I would love to attend a Python Project Night. The problem is that those are always scheduled for a Thursday night. That's when I have my Informatics class. And since the class meets up once a week, missing a class for Python Project Night is probably not a smart move on my part.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh hey there Safia! Thanks for writing. Much appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 1:57 PM, William E. S. Clemens <wesclemens at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Os.chdir( ) is not what your looking for you need to add the path for your Anaconda packages to the sys.path list. That being said its generally not a good idea to mess with sys.path unless you know what your doing. It will almost surely break your code portability.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you need help setting up Python I would suggest that you go to Project Night. They are a great group of people and I'm sure they would be more then happy to get you started down the right path.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.meetup.com/ChicagoPythonistas/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> William Clemens
>>>>>> Phone: 847.485.9455
>>>>>> E-mail: wesclemens at gmail.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Joshua Herman <zitterbewegung at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> How do people generally learn python? I think I have progressed in the following manner.
>>>>>>> 0. Don't know what python is (First experience was from Carl Karsten telling me the general syntax rules.
>>>>>>> 1. Start by using python script on the command line
>>>>>>> 2. Play with IDLE / other IDEs/ Scripting
>>>>>>> 4. Use python at school at the compbio laboratory and Alcatel Lucen
>>>>>>> 5. Learn what virtualenv is and make them
>>>>>>> 6. Learn what ipython is and use ipython
>>>>>>> 7. Play with anaconda
>>>>>>> 8. I am here
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Python is generally batteries included. Should ipython be a better starting point for people who install python? I think more scientific/ financial oriented people are doing the following.
>>>>>>> 1. Get exposed to python to apply to work
>>>>>>> 2. Use ipython by installing using anaconda and use it in a browser? possibly you don't even have a local install of python .
>>>>>>> Now the person's goals will cause them to make a decision.
>>>>>>> ?. Start by using python script on the command line
>>>>>>> ?. Play with IDLE / other IDEs/ Scripting
>>>>>>> ?. Learn what virtualenv is and make them
>>>>>>> ?. Do web development
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think that if more people are doing the second path maybe we should introduce python the second way instead of the first. For one reason setting up ipython or some notebook interface on some cloud server is probably going to become more common. The first way that people seem to learn python takes much more steps to do interesting things and once a person is hooked on python then they can learn the other steps.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:16 PM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I think my answer was way too long! Sorry! Just trying to explain what's going on. I just wish there was a way that I could get IDLE to access all the modules that Anaconda can access. Not really sure how to do it without tearing apart my operating system. (And I really don't want to do that! ) I must say
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is where the google it answer is helpful. A lot of times I'll have a question like this and will google and see some related stack overflow questions among other things. For this case I googled: using idle in anaconda
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That pulled up a mailing list discussion on the anaconda mailing list. It's an interesting thread, and you can see the devs saying that IDLE should be given better support. So that is nice for you to hear.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://groups.google.com/a/continuum.io/d/msg/anaconda/Dr8xFdKbA20/MWvhTO4KF8wJ
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The stack overflow response is http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26047185/import-anaconda-packages-to-idle
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Someone had the same problem you did. Try out the answer. It involves changing PATH, which is a normal kind of thing to do in an OS, and you won't need to worry about ripping apart your operating system. I don't know if the answer works, but it something to try.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> shekay at pobox.com
>>>>>>>>
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