Teaching numerics with Python

[Antti Rasila]

Fernando Pérez <fperez528 at yahoo.com> wrote:
: Antti Rasila wrote:

:> 2) ..if some course material and ready program files are available,
:> which we could use as building blocks of our course?
:> 

: You may want to look at IPython: http://www-hep.colorado.edu/~fperez/ipython

: I wrote it specifically to do interactive python work for scientific computing 
: and data analysis. It's a drop-in replacement for the interactive python 
: shell, but adds a bunch of features inspired by Mathematica, IDL and the 
: like.

Hi,

This seems very much the kind of functionality we are looking for.
Thanks for your information/examples.

Antti