Useful memes: ===
1. Bootup background as "starry firmament": Python comes with a relatively fixed firmament, like the sphere of the the stars: the '__builtins__' namespace. When your script (from your playbook) launches, it may assume this starry firmament as a background. print( ) will be there. Using some retro pre-Copernican astrolabby toon (meme) is not verboten. We trust our audience to have used Celestia and Stellarium (both open source) and to be unconfused about solar system basics. ** 2. Callables as "consumers": Given emoticons, we know the ( ) in :-( ) stands for "sideways lips". A callable, like an emoticon, has sideways lips: duh( ). Arguments are therefore "eaten" and are "fed" to said "mouth". In the case of __init__ and/or instance creation, we use a birthing metaphor and hence ( ) has a related other meaning. Andragogy remember ( >= TV-14 much of the time, and somewhat demented) Question: we call them "consumers" but how "mindless" might they be? Lets look at the source code. 3. Tractor Art: I continue to develop this package, with an ecosystem of silos (useful for anthropology talk, the A in STEAM). The tractors plow in wavy fields of ASCII, simple 2D array objects (list of lists) called Fields (what else?) Different subtypes of Tractor, such as Cropcircle, know how to "do the math" and give us Mandelbrots, or play Games of Life. Lots of CS type maths in a dense little open source package, a focus of my impromptu Lightning Talks these days (with laptop and slides) The segues to Turtle Art are many and following them is encouraged i.e. Tractor Art is an effective gateway (star gate) to deeper treatments of so many topics. === More memes welcome. Imagining a culturally savvy adult audience that knows about Monty Python is a helpful practice, if aiming for Python.tv Kirby ** I sometimes get feedback warning I should stay away from too much snake imagery, potentially offensive to Xtians (Diversity talk / traffic ). Now that I've seen the new George Harrison biography (a 3.x hour film), I even more appreciate the Monty Python / Beatles connection, 'Life of Brian' in particular. That's not a heritage to be ashamed of, very much on the contrary. So for myself, I'm not worried about it. _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig