[Edu-sig] Python as Application

[Arthur]

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> From: edu-sig-bounces at python.org [mailto:edu-sig-bounces at python.org] On
> Behalf Of Iwan Awaludin
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 3:27 AM
> To: edu-sig at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Python as Application


> Sometimes we use Visual Basic for Application in Excel to teach  digital
> image processing, or digital speech processing. I never found powerfull
> tools such as VBA in any free spreadsheet software.
> 
> Iwan Awaludin

My comments on these matters are really only focused on matters as they
stand and have stood in the U.S.. I don't have expectations as to the
academic traditions in other places, so that I am beyond being offended by
seeing them become - as we say - as mutable as they have seem to have become
here.

Though if you exposed further what you were trying to accomplish for
students in terms of digital image processing via VBA, I would most
certainly bet that we can find you a good/better alternative using Python
and tools.

I understand the practical realm of things quite well, and am pretty
effective with VBA myself.  My problem was I didn't have the stomach to sit
down to make a project of learning it. 

Clever guy that I am, I reasoned that if I undertook to do something a bit
more serious - like learning Python  - then what I needed to know to do what
I need to do in VBA would get thrown in for free. Which is pretty much as
things have worked out.

Art