[python-uk] Coding "Bootcamps"

[Harry Percival]

*Btw, I would be really interested to hear fun and practical links between
philosophy and programming for learning purposes. Of course there's a long
history linking philosophy, maths and programming. Books like "Gödel,
Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" might provide some inspiration.*


Slightly OT now, but I would definitely recommend the "fluid analogies"
research papers that Hofstadter co-authored with his PhD students (Melanie
Mitchell and Robert French). The copycat and tabletop programs are still
absolutely unmatched in their innovative approach to AI and trying to
understand the human mind. And you get to see some of the Lisp source iirc!


between philosophy and programming for learning purposes.

On Fri, 20 May 2016 at 09:30 Derek O'Connell <doc at doconnel.f9.co.uk> wrote:

> I doubt I need to preach about it here but I'd still liked to suggest
> starting by simply having fun! If your friend has a personal
> interest/hobby where programming can be used for exploration then grab a
> module that does most of the grunt work and start hacking away at the
> examples for his own purposes. It's the best and quickest way to get new
> programmers over that initial hump without swamping them. If he has
> absolutely no experience then I'd even suggest something like Scratch*
> to begin with to get the general idea of translating ideas into code. I
> also love Jupyter notebooks for this situation so that personal (rich)
> notes can be kept local to code as learning progresses.
>
> * It's easy to transition from Scratch to Python while still having fun
> with the help of modules such as https://github.com/pilliq/scratchpy
>
> Btw, I would be really interested to hear fun and practical links
> between philosophy and programming for learning purposes. Of course
> there's a long history linking philosophy, maths and programming. Books
> like "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" might provide some
> inspiration.
>
> -D
>
> On 18/05/16 10:59, John via python-uk wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > A philosopher friend of mine wants to transition into working as a
> software
> > developer (paying work in philosophy being a bit rare). He lives in
> London,
> > and is considering signing up for one of the Coding "Bootcamps" that
> > various organisations run. I wondered if any of you have any
> > recommendations you could make, and indeed whether any of these bootcamps
> > teach Python?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
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