On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 11:36 AM Wes Turner <wes.tur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In one lesson developing a simple solar system in pygame, for example, you > can teach everything from the meaning of pi, periodic motion, dynamic > graphics, orders of magnitude, scaling, OOP, ... all kinds of stuff. > > What a fun problem! Does PyGame have 2D physics? Kerbal Space Program > looks fun, too > It might by now ... but that's another big lesson: don't use somebody else's physics libs ... do that yourself too! For the above problem there is nothing more than F=ma (W=mg ... Weight=mass x accel_due2_grav) ... the rest is circle stuff. > > >> AND basically lay the ground-work for developing their own 2D plotting >> software. >> > > What grade levels or math and physics knowledge would you think > appropriate for these tasks? > No prior knowledge ... it's all on the teacher to be familiar enough to walk all over and essentially "drag them through" (the kids=them) the process of developing their own quick solar system model. It would be a good team-teaching lesson, one teacher on the white-board lecturing, and the other typing the python-translation of the lecture into code on a big screen. > > - Specify the coordinates of the vertices of a cube > - Draw the cube in 3D (2D from a perspective) > - Rotate the cube or move the 'camera/observer's (around a point other > than the origin) in 3D space and draw each frame at time t > > >> >> -Charlie >> >> On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 11:09 AM kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Somewhere every summer, I tend to call into question the wisdom of >>> buying the kids another scientific calculator at the drug store (we call >>> them that here, pharmacies have calculators hanging on racks at the >>> checkout, to cash in on gullibility and impulse buys). >>> >>> This year: >>> >>> https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/4dsolutions/School_of_Tomorrow/blob/master/Sandbox_Example.ipynb >>> >>> That's of course the read-only version (vs. mybinder.org) with the >>> benefit of a free video at the bottom, not visible on Github, where I give >>> my viewers the elevator speech i.e. pitch Jupyter Notebooks using Python as >>> superior to slaving away with a graphing calculator. >>> >>> Not that anyone is still using graphing calculators right? Sorry if I'm >>> beating a dead horse (idiom). >>> >>> Kirby >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Edu-sig mailing list >>> Edu-sig@python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> ccosse.github.io >> > -- ccosse.github.io
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