For newcomers to the Enthought Tool Suite, I’ve just finished a fairly lengthy tutorial called Getting Started With Enthought Technologies. It shows you how to create your first Trait, Traits UI, Chaco plot, and Envisage application! It’s a partial update of the older 2.x version of the tutorial.
I sure wish someone had pointed this out to me when I first started with ETS.
Numenta is distributing some of my favorite tools with their NuPIC toolkit including Python itself (on windows), wxPython, IPython, Traits and matplotlib. They’re also building some of their prototype and example applications using Traits. Enthought’s typical tool stack for building scientific apps looks like this (with the stuff Numenta currently distributes in white letters):
Yesterday, I gave a brief talk [.pdf] about the stack of tools that Enthought uses for building scientific applications at Numenta’s HTM Workshop (a gathering of over 200 folks interested in their library which implements Jeff Hawkins’ Hierarchical Temporal Memory ideas). My talk included a very gentle introduction to Traits/TraitsGUI.
I also briefly demonstrated some of the capabilities of the Chaco library (2D visualization) by showing some of the examples, and Mayavi (3D visualization) as an example of a Traits and Envisage (plugin framework) application.
Of particular interest to me today: there was a presentation by Subutai Ahmad showing a nice TraitsGUI-based node inspector for Numenta’s HTM library. It reminded me a lot of the “GUI for free” that happened with the TConfig project.