If you’re interested in learning more about scientific programming in Python, and want to compete in a Pacman capture-the-flag tournament, join us for the next Advanced Scientific Programming in Python summer school in St. Andrew, UK! The faculty line-up includes developers of well-known scientific libraries for Python (e.g., Francesc Alted of PyTables fame). The program [...]

At the beginning of September I’ve been invited to teach at a summer school about scientific programming. The whole experience has been really rewarding, but it was the student’s project that got me going: we had the students write artificial intelligence algorithms for the agents of a PacMan-like game, and organized a tournament for them [...]