[Edu-sig] Re: Edu-sig Digest, Vol 19, Issue 22

[Arthur]

> Behalf Of Arthur
> 
> I just consider that no reflection on Python and its ultimate utility as
> an
> educational tool - when we get on with things a bit more.
> 
> Whenever that might be.


BTW - 

Given my bent, it is not surprising that to me the most significant recent
development in the realm of Python and education is the announcement of
Numeric3, and its goals:

http://numeric.scipy.org/

"""
Numeric3
There is a new project called numeric3 which should replace Numeric for
almost all users.   The goal is to make numeric3 a hybrid of and improvement
on both numarray and Numeric.   An older document roughly describing this
project can be found here.    Numeric3 can be checked out of CVS from
sourceforge using the modulename Numeric3.    When it is finished it will
replace Numeric in SciPy.  It will also be pushed to try and get it into the
Python core (at least the basic types).  

Towards the goal of making numeric3 a hybrid of numarray and Numeric so that
(at least portions of) it can be placed in the Python core, here is a PEP
for an arrayobject for the Python core. It will be submitted as soon as
enough interested people help construct it.  The PEP is in the CVS tree of
numeric3 (CVS module name Numeric3) which is hosted at the numpy sourceforge
site.  It can be edited directly by any developer of Numeric or numarray and
this behavior is encouraged.   Alternatively, snippets of text can be sent
to oliphant at ee.byu.edu for insertion.
"""

I lot of the math I now know, I learned from Numeric.

Which, BTW, I was doing for fun.  Good, hard fun.

Art