[Numpy-discussion] Math Inspector Beta

[Charles R Harris]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 4:19 PM Matt Calhoun <calhoun137 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone!  I have been using numpy for an extremely long time, but this
> is the first time emailing the list.  I recently released the beta version
> of my free open source math app called math inspector, and so far the
> response has been really amazing, it was on the front page of hacker news
> all day sunday and went from 15 stars to 348 on GitHub since then.  I
> wanted to reach out to the community to find out if people like this
> project, have any feedback/suggestions/feature requests, or would possibly
> be interested in placing a link to the website (mathinspector.com) on the
> numpy homepage.
>
> Math inspector is a python interpreter which contains a frozen version of
> python and numpy, this makes it very easy for non-technical people to get
> started, it also creates a block coding environment which represents the
> memory of the running program.  This block coding environment is at such a
> high level of generality that it's capable of working for all of python.
> It also has an interactive graphing system made in pygame which updates and
> modernizes all of the functionality in matplotlib.  This graphing system is
> it's own stand alone module by the way.  Math inspector also has a
> documentation browser which creates a beautiful interactive experience for
> exploring the documentation.
>
> Everything in math inspector has been designed specifically for
> numpy, even though it works for all of python.  I started it 2 years ago
> when I got really confused after searching through the numpy website, and I
> wanted to build a system where I could dig into the modules in a directory
> file type structure that was highly organized.  From there everything just
> took off.
>
> The main goal of this project is to support the mathematics education
> community on youtube, by providing a free tool that everyone can use to
> share code samples for their videos, but I believe it has a wide range of
> additional applications for scientific computing as well.
>
> I have been working really hard on this project, and I really hope
> everyone likes it!
>
> You can find the full source code on the GitHub page:
> https://github.com/MathInspector/MathInspector
>
> Cheers!
> - Matt
>

Somewhat off topic, but this brought to mind Model Based Design
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-based_design>. MBD is a
different subject, but I suspect the same underlying tools used for
MathInspector might be useful.

Chuck
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