For the curious amongst you, a new version of RUR-PLE is available. https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125834
RUR-PLE stands for "Roberge's Used Robot - a Python Learning Environment". It is inspired by Guido van Robot (GvR) also available on sourceforge. For those familiar with GvR, I believe that you will find that the current version of RUR-PLE is already more useful in its current form as a teaching/learning environment for Python than the "final" version of GvR. RUR-PLE requires wxPython. The home page for the project is hopelessly out of date with the version released today. The current version includes 25 lessons, covering in various details, the following Python keywords: def, if, else, elif, not, pass, while, from, import, (as), try, except. [Note: the lesson using "from" and "import" included does not work with this version of RUR-PLE; this will be fixed in version 0.8] Release 0.8 will include lessons covering mathematical operators, strings, list, tuples and dict ... and hopefully more. The goal for version 1.0 is to be complete enough to be suitable for introducing Python to young teenagers in a High School Environment as well as containing enough material to be used in a CS1 (and perhaps CS2) University level course. This is a *preview* release, announced only on this list for now. Cheers, Andr� P.S. Any feedback, including criticisms [and suggestions for making it more relevant to the humanities ;-) is welcome.] _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
