[Edu-sig] Python promises a revolution

[Michael Williams]

On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 01:51  am, Javier Escobar wrote:
> OUR PROPOSITION
> - Computer programming  and physics teaching (How can computer=20
> programing
> help dealing with alternative conception in physics teaching)
> - Python as a programming language (What is Phython)
> - =BFWhy Phython? (Features that make phython an ideal language for=20
> physics
> teaching)
> - Design of a programming course for undergraduate physics students.
>
> I will appreciate your comments.  I'm beginning to work on every=20
> subject of
> this table of contents.

I did a Masters dissertation on the last two of these points last year=20=

in the department of physics at the University of Oxford here in the=20
UK. You may find the dissertation and the teaching materials I produced=20=

useful:

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sann1276/python/
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Michael