ideas to work on: molecular dynamics simulation [guy next to me in the cafe is talking about this] drawing cool graphs: art through plots, 2D and 3D computational linguistics: create our own T9: see /usr/share/dicts/words for a 1 M file of english words

FIRST PROJECT: NEURAL CHECKERS Required software/packages Python (2.7.*) Tkinter - making python GUI's PyBrain - neural network library for python

maybe down the line: python-visual (or VPython)
also, will probably want to get NumPy (math functions) and SciPy (matrix and numerical methods functions)