Thanks Harry! On 20/05/16 16:42, Harry Percival wrote: > *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 <d...@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 >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> python-uk mailing list >>> python-uk@python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> python-uk@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >> > > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
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