Hi All, >From another mailing list:
"Since 1825 the Royal Institute (http://www.rigb.org/) have held "Christmas Lectures" for young people. Since at least the 1970s they have been televised by the BBC over the week after Christmas and have become something of a tradition here in the UK (I remember watching them as a kid in the 1980s). This year's lectures, entitled "Sparks will fly: How to hack your home" were given by Prof Danielle George from Manchester University (other lecture alumni include Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins and David Attenborough). I've just watched the first programme with my own kids (see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p02f7g9w these programmes will be available via the Ri website once they're removed from BBC iPlayer). Prof George explains various bits and bobs of electrical engineering by re-creating the Blinkenlights as a Tetris game on a London office block. At around the 40 minute mark a brave CBBC (Children's BBC) presenter shows how the thing is programmed. Guess what? They use Python! They also do some live coding to blow stuff up as well as show the source code for the Blinkenlights (also in Python). :-)" And for those who cannot view the lectures, the Royal Institute has uploaded the videos: http://www.richannel.org/videos Enjoy! Cheers, /// Vicky Twomey-Lee (PyLadies Dublin <https://twitter.com/pyladiesdub> Founder) Python Ireland <http://python.ie/> Treasurer PSF member <http://pyfound.blogspot.ie/2012/08/welcome-new-psf-members.html> | EuroPython Society <https://ep2012.europython.eu/blog/2012/07/08/change-board-europython-society> Board Member Coding Grace <http://codinggrace.com/> co-Founder | GameCraft It <http://gamecraft.it/> co-Founder | WITS <http://witsireland.com/governance/> Board Member -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
