On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:41 PM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'll return to post a link to my followup post. > So here are my two write-ups of the just completed Programming in Python (SA:10648): http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2010/07/teaching-again.html http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2010/07/finish-line.html Also, the math teachers on math-teach @ Math Forum are starting to ramp up again, on the whole idea of pre-college computer science or digital / discrete math or whatever we call it: Here's a link to the thread (public archive). http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2095707&tstart=0 You'll see me weighing in with my familiar (to some here) views, but also expressing this new angst about IDLE. Excerpts: """ Steve Holden, chairman of the Python Software Foundation, has been suggesting the it may be time to retire IDLE, removing it from the standard distro. Indeed, on Ubuntu I'm pretty sure one needs to install it separately... """ """ When learning programming for the first time, you can dive into object oriented thinking right away, because this style of thinking was modeled on ordinary human grammar. noun.verb( ) and noun.adjective correspond to things (nouns) having behaviors and attributes (what could be more natural)? """ I talk about some of my history lobbying for a new discrete math course here -- how I first become aware of the Litvins text (at a planning workshop with Chris Brooks just about one year ago): """ For those new to this list, I've been putting myself out there as a kind of lobbyist trying to get something called computational, digital, discrete and/or fill-in-the-blank math that is for-credit in equal measure with any of the pre-calc or calc track classes. I've done a lot of writing about this, describing my network and our political tactics. I won't go into all that again here. """ http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2095937 Kirby > > Kirby Urner > 4dsolutions.net/ocn/cp4e.html _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig