On Apr 10, 1:20 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:16 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just FYI, seems relevant. > > >https://www.coursera.org/course/matrix > > > If someone knows the instructor, they should tell him to use Sage :-) > > though we aren't at Python 3 yet, which it sounds like is what he'll > > use. > > It says " You will write small programs in the programming language > Python to implement basic matrix and vector functionality and > algorithms, and use these to process real-world data..." so I'm > guessing he views the lack-of-math-functionality in Python as an > advantage for his teaching style. > > I personally disagree that it is an advantage. And processing real > world data using your own pure-path implementation of basic algorithms > seems painful. I'd at least use numpy/scipy. >
Right. I guess as a "blended" course it is interesting, but I hardly think that people who know *neither* LA *nor* any programming would be a good candidate for this course's level of discourse. It's pretty hard to teach two things at once. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
