Hi, On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Alan G Isaac <alan.is...@gmail.com> wrote: [snip] > Just to forestall the usual "just start them with arrays, eventually they'll > be grateful" reply, I would want to hear that suggestion only from someone > who has used it successfully with undergraduates in the social sciences.
I teach psychologists and neuroscientists mainly - you can get an idea of the level I'm teaching at from the notebook I posted earlier in the thread. I can't speak to my success in any objective way, but I didn't hear the students complain about the X.dot(Y). This may be because a) only some of them have much experience of or liking for matlab b) some of them have the impression that Python is the way to go, and they accept that this will mean some changes c) not much of the code they see is of the form: X * (X.T * X).I * X.T . In fact, the notebook I posted was the closest to that stuff. In any case I personally found it easier show the ideas using sympy. Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
