On Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 4:49:52 AM UTC-8, edmondo.g...@gmail.com wrote:
> import numpy I teach Python to students at varying levels. As much as I love and use Numpy in my regular work, I try to avoid showing beginning Python students solutions that require third-party packages. Here are my reasons: 1. Not every programming novice needs to understand things at the bits-and-bytes level, but they should learn the inner workings of algorithms. You won't always have a ready-made algorithm to solve your problem in a library function call, so you should learn to write your own. 2. Package maintenance can be its own headache. Sure, Anaconda can help, but it's a heavyweight distribution. And not every student is working on a computer where they have the rights to install software. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
