Myself, Alan Kennedy and Diarmuid Bourke chatted about this after Pycon Ireland. I also emailed one of the lecturers in DCU about it (he teaches the first year programming course there) and he was generally positive about the idea and highlighted some of the difficulties with persuading universities' management of the benefits of using Python for the introductory programming lessons. This was a few months back now. I haven't been at any meetups recently though and don't know if anybody else has discussed the idea any further. As far as I'm aware, this is as far as we got.
On 8 January 2011 20:47, Harry Van Haaren <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Vicky Twomey-Lee <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Again, same thing as above, if you are interested in organising one, let >> me know. I'm sure someone in UL net soc are more than happy to help, given >> they invited PyPy folks over before, and they helped PR'ing PyCon Ireland >> for me in July. Oh, and Limerick Hackerspace as well (MiLK), I'm sure they >> are happy to help you out. > > Cheers for the suggestions, I'm involved in MiLKlabs already, and I've > volunteered to provide > programming support to anyone who seeks it, particularly in C++, Python or > Java. People are > welcome to drop by the monthly meetings, and ask me for some programming > help. > > Again, will keep an eye on this for results. :-) > -Harry > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Python Ireland" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/pythonireland?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pythonireland?hl=en.
