Brad Miller wrote: > The last note about the Python in Education BOF at PyCon inspired me > to send this out. > > John Zelle, Mark Guzdial, David Ranum, and myself will be hosting a > special session on teaching introductory computer science with Python > at SIGCSE this week. I hope that this will be an opportunity to meet > some of you folks on the list face to face and have some great > discussion about teaching with Python. > > Hope to see you there! > > Brad--
Brad has been quiet about his publication Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures Using Python http://www.fbeedle.com/053-9.html It's certainly of interest to me. Of course Alan Kay expressed this week that the teaching of algorithms and data structures in CS is a problem: that: """nothing exciting about computing today has to do with data structures and algorithms""" (Kay being paraphrased at http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/02/alan_kay_is_com.shtml) I don't think people actually understand how easy it is to talk in the voice of a Visionary- like Kay does. That's the only way he seems to talk in public - perhaps because that is what people have come to expect from him. . What he tends to say seems to me almost mundane, excepting its Grandiose Tone. And I can only assume that people are impressed with the Balls it Takes to talk in such tones. It can't really believe it's the content. Art > Brad Miller, PhD > Assistant Professor > Luther College > http://www.cs.luther.edu/~bmiller <http://www.cs.luther.edu/%7Ebmiller> > jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Edu-sig mailing list >Edu-sig@python.org >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig