Do you know about PyPy? http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/news.html It sounds to me as if you have the sort of upper level students that would appreciate a compiler they can hack. We like students. JIT goes in this week.
unashamed product announcement, Laura In a message of Sat, 08 Oct 2005 11:11:37 MDT, Chuck Allison writes: >Hello Kirby et al, > >Here in Utah we have the newly formed Neumont University, which is >largely supported by MSFT and IBM. In 2.5 years students get a >"bachelors" in CS. I put it in quotes because, having visited them and >heard their spiel and studied their offerings, I believe they are >skimping on the liberal arts side (and even the theoretical CS side) >of the baccalaureate and churning out recruits for said companies >above (the ever-tempting "short cut"). While their graduates will >indeed be effective in some technical workplaces, I think the slanted >education will take its toll. As a college professor, I am concerned >for people who go that fit-a-mold route. > >About Arthur's "affiliated" comments, having been both affiliated and >non, I've found that I personally can make a greater contribution as >an affiliated worker (I sensed some cynical disapproval thereof from >Arthur). That doesn't stop me from publishing, lecturing, and doing >many other things on the side, while leveraging the benefits and >resources of the affiliation. One can be a "team player" and an >independent thinker simultaneously. > >I believe I will soon be successful in making Python our introductory >CS language (for CS0, though, not CS1). I still use it in upper >division courses whenever possible. (It's a delight in an advanced >Programming languages course - a natural to illustrate closures, >delegation, etc., and as a bridge to functional programming.) > >-- >Best regards, > Chuck _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig