Python version?

[rtfisher]

I really love this project, and think it could be a fantastic way for math and physics students in particular to become familiar with a programming language.

Any prospect for a Python language version?

[mattdesl]

I don’t have the time or desire to rewrite in Python but I will happily link to other language forks in the intro. 😊

[AlJohri]

for reference, you can use something like this to add python right into the existing README:

<details>
  <summary>See Python implementation</summary>

  ```python
  1 + 1
  ```

</details>

renders like:

See Python implementation

1 + 1

[mraza007]

Who’s working on this issue

[mraza007]

I was thinking to create a python version of this

[stuaxo]

Fantastic idea - a python version should probably use jupyter notebooks.

[mraza007]

Sounds like an idea how should I begin should I start a jupyter notebook specifically for this

[stuaxo]

OK... I actually take that back, just porting the README.md would make more sense, you could certainly use a notebook to check the work.

[mraza007]

Oh okay sounds great

[quinn-dougherty]

Hi, I'm more than happy to knock this out. I'd probably make a file called PYTHON-README.md that starts with the original readme, replace all the javascript with python, with few embellishments as they're called for (for instance in python it's important to point out the difference between the vectorization DSL and a vanilla python list).

a .ipynb would be nice, especially with Latex, but since github viewer fails to load .ipynb files sometimes (making the user go into colab) and can be particularly hard to read on mobile, it's not obvious that it's the preferred choice.

but it would be trivial to just to both :)

@mraza007 how is your fork going?

Any extra formatting notes or approaches you'd prefer, i'm happy to abide.

I can send PR in a few days.

[mraza007]

Hey @quinn-dougherty I think its a great Idea I started a seperate repo for python but haven't really done much. I will start working on this after my finals maybe we can split up the load and work together on this
heres the repo https://github.com/mraza007/math-as-code-python_version

[quinn-dougherty]

I ended up finding more time today than i anticipated and it's all done

Sorry Mraza007.

I stopped short of adding a matrix multiplication section, but I hope I covered everything that was expected 😸

[mattdesl]

Thanks @quinn-dougherty! Merged in. Also open to any more PRs to fix the Python version or link to it from the main.