[Nfb-science] Learning Python

[Michael Whapples]

On 15/02/11 18:27, Mike Freeman wrote:
> HMMM ... Don't you also need to learn to code and work with the visual elements?
Depends what the desired learning outcome is to be. If its so the 
student knows how to produce a program with visual output of a 
simulation then yes you are right. If its to understand the physics and 
what happens as certain variables are altered then may be the visual 
elements are irrelevant if one cannot see them as a better understanding 
may be gained from textual/tabular output from a simulation.

Michael Whapples

> Mike Freeman
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> On Feb 15, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Chelsea Cook<astrochem119 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> For a breif section of one of my physics classes, we are having a
>> small experience with python 2.7. The other students are coding visual
>> elements with spheres, vectors, etc. My professors and I have worked
>> out a system for harnessing the mathematical power of Python instead.
>> However, I cannot get JAWS to read my program outputs. I am trying
>> with the Idle module, and think that may be where the problem is. Can
>> anyone confirm, or tell me what components they use to code? Thanks!!
>>
>> -- 
>> Chelsea Cook
>>
>> Virginia Tech 2015; Physics Major
>> cook2010 at vt.edu
>> "I ask you to look both ways.  For the road to a knowledge of the
>> stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has
>> been reached through
>> the stars."
>> Sir Arthur Eddington, British astrophysicist (1882-1944), Stars and
>> Atoms (1928), Lecture 1
>>
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