[Idle-dev] The Future of Python

[Vatroslav Suton]

I have some source that includes pyopengl
Just give me some time to settle down, I'd be glad to share


Vatroslav Suton
vatroslavsuton at aim.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood at ncsu.edu>
To: Todd V. Rovito <rovitotv at rovitotv.org>
Cc: idle-dev <idle-dev at python.org>
Sent: Mon, Feb 17, 2014 8:01 pm
Subject: Re: [Idle-dev] The Future of Python


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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