Hi, 1. IDE's There are a number of IDEs that can be used for Python development:
* Spyder (free, cross platform) -- http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/ * Eric (free, cross platform) -- http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ * PyDev + Eclipse or Aptana (free, cross platform) -- http://pydev.org/ * Wing IDE (non free, but has a 30-day trial) -- http://www.wingware.com/ * XCode (free, closed, OS X only) I'm at EuroScipy and many of the scientists and engineers giving talks mention some of these IDE's (especially Spyder). It would be of interest to make a page at http://wiki.sagemath.org about each of the above IDE's in the context of Sage. Which can be used with Sage? How? Do they work on anything but Linux, etc. Any volunteers? This could be a good student project (so possibly some funding for something at UW). 2. Sage at EuroScipy: Another thing -- though most talks mention Cython, not one single talk given about actual engineers/scientists doing work even mentioned Sage -- and there were over 30 talks. Perhaps there is no penetration at all of Sage into scientific computing, at least in Europe. Perhaps this will change in the next few years, given that NSF looks highly likely to fund this NSF grant http://wstein.org/grants/compmath09/ Sage was only mentioned in the first keynote by Langtangen, in which he explained that installing Python for his students is very hard. His personal solution -- force the students to install Ubuntu, either natively or in a Virtual Machine. Full stop. http://picasaweb.google.com/wstein/20100710EuroscipyDay1#5492400224314781074 He made some (funny) jokes about being a dictator. I personally disagree with his suggested "solution". Maple, Matlab, Mathematica do better, and so can we. William -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
