On Saturday, 20 February 2016 18:23:26 UTC+2, nholtz wrote: > On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 2:49:44 PM UTC-5, wrong.a...@gmail.com > wrote: > > I am mostly getting positive feedback for Python. > > ... > > I'm surprised no one has mentioned jupyter yet, so here goes ... > > A browser-based notebook, see http://www.jupyter.org > > I think this is an unparalleled way to learn Python, by experimentation at > the start and for development later. As an example, I wanted to do some table > processing, so a couple of lines to experiment with Pandas reading CSV files, > then a couple of more lines to start processing the data ... What a wonderful > way to experimentally develop software ... > > Can even develop simple GUIs *really* easily (but packaging for distribution > is probably not easy, unless distribution is only within an organization and > that organization can run a private notebook server). > > If you want to try it, this page > > http://jupyter.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html > > recommends installing Anaconda Python which installs a *lot* of stuff (numpy, > scipy, sympy, pandas, etc. etc.) > > I highly recommend both (I use them for Civil Engineering (structures) > software and teach a related university course)
Thanks. This gives me some more confidence that it will be a good choice for my work as well. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
