Hi everyone, The recent increase in activity in this group is nice - especially as it seems that Python is being used in an increasing number of educational institutions.
I have enjoyed reading the (too few) reports about Pycon 2008. Unfortunately, I have been unable to attend. From the reports I read elsewhere, I gather that Johannes Woolard managed to interest a few more people in Crunchy; he was only one of two people (the other being Guido van Rossum) interviewed by Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Johannes-Woolard-On-Crunchy.html&Itemid=29). So, for those that have seen his talk, or talked to him, I was wondering if you have any suggestions to make for improvement to Crunchy during the upcoming Google Summer of Code. I have already been contacted by a few students already interested in doing a Crunchy-related project. Some project ideas can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/crunchy/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas Among them, is the following (based on an old suggestion by Jeff Elkner): === Create a collection of doctest-based problems for simple (and not so simple) Python exercises for list, strings, dicts, math functions, etc. The beginning of a collection can be found at http://code.google.com/p/doctests/source/browse; this is the list referred to at http://wiki.python.org/moin/ProblemSets/99_Prolog_Problems_Solutions for problems 1 to 6. === There are only a few days left before students start uploading their project ideas. So now is the time to make suggestions so that you can use Crunchy effectively next September ;-) André _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
