Re: [Visualpython-users] Python is good

[Dr P H B. <P.H...@bh...>]

Dear Bruce

That excellent message needs wide circulation

May I draw the attention of the Vpython community to a forthcoming
conference: CCP2007 [Conference on Computational Physics] to be held in
Belgium in September

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

CCP2007
CONFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
BRUSSELS, 5-8 SEP 2007
http://ccp2007.ulb.ac.be/

CCP2008 is likely to be held in Brazil.

Regards

Peter Borcherds





In message <463...@nc...>
          Bruce Sherwood <Bru...@nc...> wrote:

> You might be interested in this anecdote. This weekend Ruth Chabay is 
> participating in a national workshop on bringing more computation into 
> the undergraduate physics curriculum. In a plenary session someone got 
> up and proclaimed that it was really important to have students use 
> standard tools that they could use life-long in their careers, not 
> off-beat tools such as Python. With Ruth looking on with interest, a 
> knowledgeable participant who is actually engaged in professional 
> programming got up and said, "You don't know what you're talking about. 
> There is a huge demand for Python programmers, and there aren't nearly 
> enough of them." Then a second participant got up and said, "Hallmark 
> wanted me to develop a program on a very short deadline, but it had to 
> be in C or C++. I explained that it couldn't be done in C or C++ on a 
> short deadline, but I could do it in Python, and did."
> 
> Independent of these ringing endorsements of Python, the fundamental 
> error made by the first speaker was the common one of thinking that you 
> learn one tool and use it forever. Professional life isn't like that. 
> You need flexibility.
> 
> Bruce
> 
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