What is most important, however, is that you come with:

• A strong sense of responsibilty and reliability
• The ability to read and follow directions

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Did I say Zope was really dope? What was I smoking? Everyone out there who thinks sticking all your data into one big honkin file is a good idea, raise your hand....

I think zope is really dope.

Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, by Sussman and Wisdom. Available from buy.com. It's not a bad book; it tries to do some neat things integrating some "rigorous" CS-Mathy things with the fast-and-loose of Lagrangian mechanics, and succeeds somewhat, but they come >>this<< close to actually defining co/contravariant vectors and tangent bundles and never really do...

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