[Idle-dev] The Future of Python

[Bruce Sherwood]

Thanks for pointing out iPython, which indeed has many good features.
GlowScript and VPython have a different goal, which is to make it quite
easy for nonexpert programmers, including novices, to write programs that
generate real-time navigable 3D animations as a side effect of
computations. One very large population (several tens of thousands per
semester) is students in an intro physics course who, despite no prior
programming experience, use the VPython module to be able to write short
Python programs that model physical systems and show 3D animations of these
systems. VPython is also used in several advanced computational physics
textbooks. GlowScript could also be an appropriate environment for these
students if the programming language could be Python rather than JavaScript
or CoffeeScript, which aren't very good languages for novice use.

Bruce


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Todd V. Rovito <rovitotv at rovitotv.org>wrote:

> Phil and Bruce,
>   One of the best ways to run Python from the web is with iPython's
> notebook feature:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPython
>
> This might not be exactly what you want but it works great for scientist
> and engineers.  Sharing code between S&E's is trivial with iPython.  I find
> iPython good for developing small chunks of code and sharing with people.
>  Anything serious I still use IDLE.
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Feb 17, 2014, at 10:38 AM, phil jones <interstar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ah ... OK.  Will try Chromium.
> >
> >
> >> On 17 February 2014 12:32, Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood at ncsu.edu>
> wrote:
> >> Thanks to a report, I find that the Brython/GlowScript machinery doesn't
> >> work in Firefox or IE; it does work in Chrome. Dunno why. It's early
> days.
> >>
> >> Bruce
> >>
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