It's nice to see Python come out on top for threading.
--titus
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Posted by Scott Lamb on 2007-06-28 at 12:32.
Hmm, I wouldn't call "better than Perl" validation. "Easier to read the Perl, better threading support than COBOL, more productive than TriMedia VLIW assembler, faster than MUMPS …read more
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On Tuesday (June 12), Wednesday, and Thursday I taught the course "Intermediate and Advanced Software Carpentry in Python" at Lawrence Livermore National Labs. This was intended to be an extension of some of the ideas from the Software Carpentry course.
The pre-course course advert, the handouts distributed at the course …
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Does anyone know if there are any faculty programming contests out there?
It'd be fun, and I can't imagine that the competition would be as tough as the student programming contests probably are ;).
--titus
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Posted by jt on 2007-06-22 at 19:56.
Um... faculty members... programming? You lost …read more
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Spoke yesterday with Bill Punch, a CS professor at MSU who is using Python for intro CS. He told me his tale of tracking down what an '@' sign meant (it's a decorator, http://docs.python.org/ref/function.html). Needless to say it took him quite a while to google …
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The O'Reilly bookstore didn't actually let you buy our Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium for the first 24 hours -- some bug on the Web site, apparently...
(See? That's why you need to buy it!)
--titus
p.s. Jason wants to make sure you know that the …
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