[Edu-sig] some new open source Python writing (Jupyter Notebooks)

[Wes Turner]

Re: dimensional analysis and units

- pint does units:
  https://github.com/hgrecco/pint
  https://github.com/hgrecco/pint/blob/master/pint/default_en.txt

- CSVW can handle units (with QUDT URIs)
  - {CSV, JSON,} don't include support for datatypes or units
  - ( Spreadsheet tools should handle units (and significant digits) just
as well as they handle columnar/series/range text formatting.
#LinkedReproducibility )

On Monday, September 4, 2017, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Monday, September 4, 2017, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kirby.urner at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> PS:
>>
>> my recent exercises in teaching math with Python, ala Peter Farrell, is
>> sparking some heated debate on math-teach.
>>
>> http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2876811  (especially in
>> recent days, early September 2017)
>>
>> Bob Hansen is trashing this writing as some of the worst pedagogy he's
>> ever seen.
>>
>> I'm trying to incorporate some of his feedback in my latest revisions.
>>
>
> Maybe a bit OT:
>
> I've wondered whether we could/should instead start mathematics education
> with bits as entropy (information theory first)?:
>
> - base 2: 00, 01, 10, 11 (on our hands (2**?))
> - counting
> - ASCII (0-127)
>   - how do we know the number represents an integer or a character? ...
> Encoding, Types
>   - The number zero is actually # (code point): ___
> - Unicode
> - class SpecialString(str)
>
>
> - Binary and then floating point arithmetic
>   - unary, binary operators
>     - import operators: sorted(dir(operators))
>   - left and right shift
>   - multiplication as repeated addition
>   - long division
>     - floating point (error, BigFloat)
>     - symbolic mathematics
>       - MathJax, LaTeX (how to even type this?)
>       - CAS: SymPy, latex2sympy
>
> - Entropy
>   - Independence of observations
>   - Maximum Information
>
> ...
>
> class Shape
> class Quadrilateral
> class Rectangle
> class Square
> class Triangle
> class RightTriangle
> def perimiter
> def area
> def vertexes
>
> def scale
> def rotate
>
> class PlatonicSolid
>
> ...
>
> Are there computer science & mathematics curricula like this (that start
> with entropy)?
>
>
>
>> Our debates are reminiscent of some we've had here on this list in years
>> gone by.
>>
>> I've also been chronicling my progress in this related thread:
>>
>> http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2877392
>>
>> Kirby
>>
>>
>>
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