I wish there were more opportunities for people to learn via “cross training” like this.
I’d love to learn more about a number of engineering disciplines by helping people who know those fields, learn how to implement the algorithms and mathematical calculations they need in Python and simultaneously, learning more about those algorithms and calculations in order to best implement them and show how best to use Python for these tasks.
But unfortunately such opportunities are few and far between outside academia and other learning oriented environments in my experience.
I love this idea. The best way to get academics to buy in would be to have some clear outcome such as a publication or funding opportunity.
There are a lot of clunky engineering tools that would benefit greatly from professional software development. Computational Fluid Dynamics software in particular is just plain awful in terms of usability for beginners.
What are the names of some of this software that are a good example of in-use but are clunky/have awful usability? I ask because it sounds like an interesting area, and I would like to see for myself what you're working with.
I guess the person you replied to is saying that they are interested in teaching you JS, in exchange for you teaching them mechanical engineering fundamentals, assuming your schedule can allow that.
I wish there were more opportunities for people to learn via “cross training” like this.
I’d love to learn more about a number of engineering disciplines by helping people who know those fields, learn how to implement the algorithms and mathematical calculations they need in Python and simultaneously, learning more about those algorithms and calculations in order to best implement them and show how best to use Python for these tasks.
But unfortunately such opportunities are few and far between outside academia and other learning oriented environments in my experience.
I love this idea. The best way to get academics to buy in would be to have some clear outcome such as a publication or funding opportunity.
There are a lot of clunky engineering tools that would benefit greatly from professional software development. Computational Fluid Dynamics software in particular is just plain awful in terms of usability for beginners.
What are the names of some of this software that are a good example of in-use but are clunky/have awful usability? I ask because it sounds like an interesting area, and I would like to see for myself what you're working with.
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What’s this time you speak of?
(new Date()).toLocaleString()
I guess the person you replied to is saying that they are interested in teaching you JS, in exchange for you teaching them mechanical engineering fundamentals, assuming your schedule can allow that.
I got that, I have very little free time and I’m in Ireland so I’ve no idea how time zones would permit this.
My response was meant to be humorous.
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And my guess is the reply means: ”there is no time, but I wish...”