Yeah, the last one was really funny. ^^Talvieno wrote:Fake and old, but funny, yes.
Didn't know it was that old...
Yeah, the last one was really funny. ^^Talvieno wrote:Fake and old, but funny, yes.
Flatfingers wrote: 23.01.2017: "Show me the smoldering corpse of Perfectionist Josh"
That...seems a little out of context...Scytale wrote:They taught us Python because they had long beards and didn't believe in paying for software
Flatfingers wrote: 23.01.2017: "Show me the smoldering corpse of Perfectionist Josh"
Haha sorry, I meant as an alternative to teaching MATLAB with its high licensing fees, and that, from a student's perspective they're very similar syntactically for numerical purposes. It's also about as easy to teach as MATLAB, for those purposes, and you get it for zero cost.JanB1 wrote:That...seems a little out of context...Scytale wrote:They taught us Python because they had long beards and didn't believe in paying for software
No, and neither was GNU Octave. Besides, if you're going to go with an alternative to MATLAB, Python seems the more versatile for pedagogical purposes, not to mention applicable to a wider range of problems.Cornflakes_91 wrote:And scilab, which is matlab compatible, wasnt good enough?
Hmm...thank you for this really interesting and well thought through look at this whole situation.Scytale wrote:No, and neither was GNU Octave. Besides, if you're going to go with an alternative to MATLAB, Python seems the more versatile for pedagogical purposes, not to mention applicable to a wider range of problems.Cornflakes_91 wrote:And scilab, which is matlab compatible, wasnt good enough?
If I were teaching a course in physical engineering that needed a quick language to teach in and I didn't care for the licencing cost of MATLAB, Python would make a lot of sense to me.
e: and since Python is so well-documented, it means that if students are having problems there are plenty of resources online for them. Along with most matlab capability added through numpy, scipy, and matplotlib, it's just a logical choice.
Flatfingers wrote: 23.01.2017: "Show me the smoldering corpse of Perfectionist Josh"
No worries, and that's kind of you! But uh, I'm still not a programmer, and I daresay there will be computer scientists more qualified than I to comment on this. My perspective is just as an engineer and for how the useful the language may be for teaching.JanB1 wrote:Hmm...thank you for this really interesting and well thought through look at this whole situation.Scytale wrote:No, and neither was GNU Octave. Besides, if you're going to go with an alternative to MATLAB, Python seems the more versatile for pedagogical purposes, not to mention applicable to a wider range of problems.Cornflakes_91 wrote:And scilab, which is matlab compatible, wasnt good enough?
If I were teaching a course in physical engineering that needed a quick language to teach in and I didn't care for the licencing cost of MATLAB, Python would make a lot of sense to me.
e: and since Python is so well-documented, it means that if students are having problems there are plenty of resources online for them. Along with most matlab capability added through numpy, scipy, and matplotlib, it's just a logical choice.
or there were just a lot of people who have a job
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