Many of the Manga guides are good. Biochemistry is the best (http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Biochemistry-Masaharu-Takemura/dp/1593272766). The statistics one is good too but probably a little beyond most bright 10-year-olds. An interesting math book is Math Girls (http://www.amazon.com/Math-Girls-Hiroshi-Yuki/dp/0983951306) - it sort of has a plot but its more math than story. There are some good kids programming books like Python for Kids (
www.amazon.com/Python-Kids-Playful-Introduction-Programming/dp/1593274076), or Scratch Programming (www.amazon.com/Scratch-Programming-Adventure-Covers-Version/dp/1593275315).
Speaking of Scratch, it is really great if you haven't already checked that out (https://scratch.mit.edu/). Its free.
New Hampshire is small, rich, and privileged. It has nothing to do with your relaxed gun laws. The "stricter" gun control in NY and CA is a joke compared to what it should be.
I teach college students, and almost all of them are hopeless at programming. This is at least partly because they have never seen a CLI. I'd like to see more CLI used (yes, required!) not less.
I don't like Perl so I wish the catchy put-down of the summary title was accurate, but its not quite right. I think shell scripts are the COBOL of scripting. Perl might be more like B, although I'm not sure there is a great analogy there.
No. This is a fraud, and by sending these jokers any money you only encourage more fraud in the future. At most it might make sense to try to replicate their results, but please don't give the perpetrators any money.
Sage is an open source platform for mathematics and computation that ties together many C and C++ libraries with Python code. You could browse the project bug and enhancement tracker or the sage-devel google group for some ideas of where to contribute and the project culture. There are a very wide range of things to do.
With Sage, and probably most other projects, a very good way to get started is to help improve the documentation. This is not glamorous, but it is effective. It involves you with other people in the project, and gets you familiar with their development practices. Its usually well appreciated since documentation quickly gets out of date on an active project. Writing documentation will suggest some coding projects naturally - to adequately describe a current bug to users, for example, you will have to understand it somewhat, and that might suggest a solution.
You should check out sage (http://www.sagemath.org), its a python-based computational platform that includes R. Besides including rpy with a slightly improved interface, you can also run a sage worksheet in native R mode.
Not many sage users are using this interface, so it would be great to have more feedback on it.
Exactly. Sage, for instance, pretty much does that and adds in a lot of other mathematical and statistical programs through various interfaces (http:www.sagemath.org).
You should really check out Sage: http://www.sagemath.org/ . Python based, includes pylab, ipython, scipy, numpy (everything you mentioned) plus much, much more.
At the end of the day, the London Stock Exchange could not care less what the developers think about the language they're using, or even what the operating system is. They're not trying to stick a finger in the eye of Microsoft or promote open source, they just want a product that does what they want at the best price they can get.
...get them on netflix. Neil deGrasse Tyson is OK, and I like David Attenborough's stuff too, but its amazing to go back and listen to Sagan and Cousteau. Almost everything coming out today seems dumbed-down in comparison.
There is money involved, its just indirect. High school sports get parents and the community involved, and then they are more likely to vote for school funding on ballots.
Its not a simple problem, its a deep cultural one.
I can understand why a Windows environment would be considered desirable in an educational tool, since the children will be learning to use the OS and applications that theyâ(TM)ll be encountering in their adult life.
Heck, I started back at that age on a Commodore PET, and it certainly hasn't affected my ability to use a modern day OS.
Yaz.
Actually, starting on a PET probably helped you learn other things. For the same reason, starting with linux is a good idea.
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Many of the Manga guides are good. Biochemistry is the best (http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Biochemistry-Masaharu-Takemura/dp/1593272766). The statistics one is good too but probably a little beyond most bright 10-year-olds. An interesting math book is Math Girls (http://www.amazon.com/Math-Girls-Hiroshi-Yuki/dp/0983951306) - it sort of has a plot but its more math than story. There are some good kids programming books like Python for Kids ( www.amazon.com/Python-Kids-Playful-Introduction-Programming/dp/1593274076), or Scratch Programming (www.amazon.com/Scratch-Programming-Adventure-Covers-Version/dp/1593275315). Speaking of Scratch, it is really great if you haven't already checked that out (https://scratch.mit.edu/). Its free.
New Hampshire is small, rich, and privileged. It has nothing to do with your relaxed gun laws. The "stricter" gun control in NY and CA is a joke compared to what it should be.
Please fix that extraneous apostrophe.
It doesn't take anywhere near 500,00 workers to build those phones.
Overestimated?
If the math is more abstract, then Sage (python-based) is a better bet than R (and Sage includes R): www.sagemath.org.
I teach college students, and almost all of them are hopeless at programming. This is at least partly because they have never seen a CLI. I'd like to see more CLI used (yes, required!) not less.
I don't like Perl so I wish the catchy put-down of the summary title was accurate, but its not quite right. I think shell scripts are the COBOL of scripting. Perl might be more like B, although I'm not sure there is a great analogy there.
No. This is a fraud, and by sending these jokers any money you only encourage more fraud in the future. At most it might make sense to try to replicate their results, but please don't give the perpetrators any money.
My current city: Constantinople. But I'm from Istanbul.
They can use all of my info they want to, it's all lies.
That's quite a Byzantine method of obfuscation.
Sage is an open source platform for mathematics and computation that ties together many C and C++ libraries with Python code. You could browse the project bug and enhancement tracker or the sage-devel google group for some ideas of where to contribute and the project culture. There are a very wide range of things to do. With Sage, and probably most other projects, a very good way to get started is to help improve the documentation. This is not glamorous, but it is effective. It involves you with other people in the project, and gets you familiar with their development practices. Its usually well appreciated since documentation quickly gets out of date on an active project. Writing documentation will suggest some coding projects naturally - to adequately describe a current bug to users, for example, you will have to understand it somewhat, and that might suggest a solution.
That is too true man. I have recently been in a world of pain from not properly documenting output from simulations.
If this trend continues, Android will have 100% of the market in just over 8 years!
I love linear extrapolation.
Even more than that after 9 years!
You should check out sage (http://www.sagemath.org), its a python-based computational platform that includes R. Besides including rpy with a slightly improved interface, you can also run a sage worksheet in native R mode. Not many sage users are using this interface, so it would be great to have more feedback on it.
Exactly. Sage, for instance, pretty much does that and adds in a lot of other mathematical and statistical programs through various interfaces (http:www.sagemath.org).
It's not that much really. Only about a millionth of a hellabyte.
You should really check out Sage: http://www.sagemath.org/ . Python based, includes pylab, ipython, scipy, numpy (everything you mentioned) plus much, much more.
The US should give Richard Stallman the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
At the end of the day, the London Stock Exchange could not care less what the developers think about the language they're using, or even what the operating system is. They're not trying to stick a finger in the eye of Microsoft or promote open source, they just want a product that does what they want at the best price they can get.
That's exactly why this is an interesting event.
...get them on netflix. Neil deGrasse Tyson is OK, and I like David Attenborough's stuff too, but its amazing to go back and listen to Sagan and Cousteau. Almost everything coming out today seems dumbed-down in comparison.
That's the beauty of Cython, check it out.
I think numpy and scipy will start using it more and more.
There is money involved, its just indirect. High school sports get parents and the community involved, and then they are more likely to vote for school funding on ballots. Its not a simple problem, its a deep cultural one.
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Heck, I started back at that age on a Commodore PET, and it certainly hasn't affected my ability to use a modern day OS.
Yaz.
Actually, starting on a PET probably helped you learn other things. For the same reason, starting with linux is a good idea.
If you haven't already, check out Sage: http://www.sagemath.org/ Here's a review of sorts from a heavy Matlab user: http://vnoel.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/bye-matlab-hello-python-thanks-sage/
Exactly. That's why sage will win in the not-too-distant future.