[Edu-sig] Recap of 2 Python classes

2005-12-01 Thread Kirby Urner
Quiet around here. So I did two classes for 8th graders, 7 to go. One was pre-Thanksgiving and included some play with Google Earth. Did you know you can share Places using XML files (.kml)? Example: http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0";> Climatron -90.2588032444306 38.6141290265980

[Edu-sig] I've just started reading this paper

2005-12-01 Thread Scott David Daniels
I've just started reading this paper (wish it covered Python): Lowering the barriers to programming: A taxonomy of programming environments and languages for novice programmers ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) Volume 37 , Issue 2 (June 2005) Caitlin Kelleher, Randy Pausch http://portal.acm