This is admittedly somewhat weird: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?s=87117
(a short cartoon, best to let it download to 100% of playback will be choppy). Michel, not sure what fonts best for Unicode, still learning. Deju Vu? (a font). At least with younger kids, I think it works to speak of callables having "a mouth". In python( elephant ) it looks like a python object is "eating" an elephant object. ( ) looks like a pairing lips, thinking of emoticons i.e. "a mouth turned sideways." I'm thinking of skits around functions "eating" objects... (having little skits is a part of our Monty Python heritage). Another metaphor is "the castle gates" i.e. arguments show up to be accepted by a function or other callable. Exceptions get raised. Lots of skit possibilities around "duck typing" (quack quack). Watching now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_kZDvwofHY Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
