[Edu-sig] Advice: is python suitable?

[Rick Holbert]

Seems like it's good enough for Oxford...

http://www-teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk/computing/ProgrammingResources/Oxford/handbook_Python_html/handbook_Python.html

Here are a few more links that may be of some help:

http://www.scipy.org/
http://www.swig.org/papers/Py97/beazley.html
http://physics.syr.edu/~salgado/software/vpython/

Rick

On Thursday 07 October 2004 03:56, Peter Bowyer wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> This is semi off-topic, so I'd better introduce myself :-)
> I'm studying physics at the University of Southampton, and joined this list
> as I hope to use my final year project to create physics simulations in
> Python to aid students, or (even better) write course material to teach the
> students how to think about the physics concepts (and program at the same
> time...).  That is still a year away, and I've not experimented much with
> Python yet to see how feasible it would be to do this kind of thing.
>
> This year I'm taking a course in computational physics, which allows the
> use of any programming language.  The notes however are skewed towards the
> department's in-house languages (variations on BASIC and C).  I'm hoping
> one of you could look at the course notes and tell me if there's anything
> here that is not possible to do in Python?  They are at
> http://www.phys.soton.ac.uk/teach/year3/notes/ph314/notes/phys3006b.pdf for
> the BASIC version, and
> http://www.phys.soton.ac.uk/teach/year3/notes/ph314/notes/phys3006c.pdf for
> the C version.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter