Peter Drake wrote: > > Is anyone else using Python procedurally in an intro course, or is what > I'm doing here perverse?
What you are doing is definitely not perverse, and I strongly disagree with Kirby on this one, *for the audience you are dealing with*. I've taught programming for a number of years, both OO and procedural, and I find that if someone has math phobia, *and* you only have a limited time (like a semester), then OO is way more powerful than you need to get into, and is thus unduly confusing for the students. For those who have had a little programming, OO can make some things very nice. Therefore, I do most of my python teaching procedurally, and leave the OO for the slightly more advanced students. Have a look at some of my projects on http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais/projects.html They include: pynqc: a python wrapper to the LEGO Mindstorms NQC language Vacuum World: a vacuum world simulator (a.la. Norwig's AI book), which is a nice graphical way to introduce programming in Python, simulating a vacuum cleaner let me know if you use these, or have any questions! thanks, Brian Blais -- ----------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
