science

how would you like computer science classes to be taught?

hello I am a graduate student now, and hopefully someday I will teach. my interests are C++, Python, embedded languages, and scientific computing. Meanwhile I daydream about how I would teach. I was not quite happy with my undergraduate university as I found many computer science classes lacking. so I would like to ask you, if you w...

A Good Final High School AP Computer Science Programming Project?

Hey guys this question might seem very specific but I am in need of some ideas for a project to do for my last month or so in my AP Computer Science class. I've been looking at some college final ideas and a lot of them just seem plain boring. At first I thought about writing a IRC client in JAVA but I wouldn't really be learning anythin...

Undefined Variable in Matlab

The Following is the basic skeleton for my MATLAB program. Each box is a class definition. Scroll down for the error. Note: 1. Each Class has a custom constructor The Error Undefined function or variable 'Troom'. Error in ==> wall>wall.wall at 31 function o = wall(Tr) Error in ==> mainfile at 5 w1 = wall(); Thi...

UV-vis detector [Hardware]

hello. This is not hundred percent programming related question, but I was not able to find answer on the net. Is there some kind of detector to record frequency/intensity of light radiation source? something like spectroscopy detector, but instead of actual machine, just the module which can be integrated in project. I have tried se...

How do you use Ruby on Rails for science (if applicable)?

We do research in systems biology. We prefer to use existing data sets, because collecting new biological data is expensive. Thus, a lot of the scripts we write are little more than transformations of one data set into another. Eventually, we put our results online -- and more and more journals are requiring this sort of thing. So it w...

Are the languages with a sound type system a sub set of strongly typed languages?

The title says all. ...