> -----Original Message----- > From: Chuck Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 6:57 PM > To: Arthur > Cc: 'Kirby Urner'; [email protected] > Subject: Re[2]: [Edu-sig] re: Beyond CP4E > > Hello Arthur, > > Boy this is getting thick! Confident humility is quite attainable. >
If I attained it, how hard can it be? Humble, right? > > (Please forgive the top-post. And being new here, let me > self-introduce: I'm a college CS professor (with 20 years development > experience) trying to get Python in our curriculum (with some > success), a colleague of and co-author with Bruce Eckel, and attended > my first PyCon last month, at his invitation). > > Perhaps we can switch for a moment to the task of trying to squeeze > Python into an already crowded curriculum to teach CS1. Any ideas > would be appreciated. My main obstacle is to get consensus from the > rest of the faculty (they don't know Python). Intuitional answer ... Sneak it in through a course focusing on algorithms. Maybe ala David Eppstein: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/teach.html Art > > -- > Best regards, > Chuck Allison > > Sunday, April 17, 2005, 3:04:17 PM, you wrote: > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Arthur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 4:29 PM > >> To: 'Arthur'; 'Kirby Urner'; [email protected] > >> Subject: RE: [Edu-sig] re: Beyond CP4E > >> > >> > From: Arthur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > To: 'Kirby Urner'; 'Arthur'; [email protected] > >> Confidence is easy, if you ignore enough of what's around you. > >> > >> I have no confidence in anything I am saying. Or in PyGeo, for that > >> matter. > >> > >> Too smart for that. > > A> But in truth I have more confidence in what I am saying that what I > hear > A> Kirby and many others saying, only because they sound to me too > confident in > A> what they are saying. > > A> And I am only confident that there is no sound basis for this kind of > A> confidence. > > A> But because since I am confident - at least this far - we can be sure > that > A> I am wrong, as well. > > A> Non-linear dynamics in action. > > A> Art > > > A> _______________________________________________ > A> Edu-sig mailing list > A> [email protected] > A> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
