On 7/18/07, Antoine van Gelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido wrote: > > Our plan has three components: > > > > * Develop a new computing curriculum suitable for high school and > > college students. > > * Create better, easier to use tools for program development and > > analysis. > > * Build a user community around all of the above, encouraging feedback > > and self-help. > > > > These components come together in the scientific exploration of the role of > > programming in > > next generation computing environments. > > > > We intend to start with Python, a language designed for rapid development. > > We believe that > > Python makes a great first language to learn: Unlike languages designed > > specifically for > > beginners, Python is also the choice of many programming professionals. It > > has an active, > > growing user community which has already expressed much interest in this > > proposal, and > > we expect that this will be a fertile first deployment ground for the > > teaching materials > > and tools we propose to create. During the course of the research we will > > evaluate Python > > and propose improvements or alternatives. > > > Please forgive me. > > I know very little about the history of this forum so I have a small > question: > > Which mailing list should I be subscribed to in order to participate in > discussion regarding the component of the plan: > > "Develop a new computing curriculum suitable for high school and > college students." > > ? > > There are political considerations which interact with any goals that > involve the development of high school and college curricula and if > [email protected] is not the place to discuss them I fear I may be in > the wrong place!
In my view, if the political considerations directly and specifically affect Python curriculum development (or getting a particular curriculum accepted) in a particular situation, that's one thing. Going on at great length repeatedly about educational politics/philosophy in general is another. There are many lists and fora specifically for those topics. -- cordially, Anna -- It is fate, but call it Italy if it pleases you, Vicar! _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
