[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>I'm working on porting our Python Robotics and associated AI code to
>IronPython.
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Don't know which came first, the chicken of the egg, but is it
presumptuous to assume that Microsoft's funding of
Institute for Personal Robots in Education at Bryn Mawr is no
Hi everyone,
I've been reading postings in thie group a long time but have not really
posting much.
Anyway, I have a question.
I'm planning to start a high school programming club and I'm looking for
materials. I've been programming Python for 4 years and have used PyGame,
VPython in some of
> > I've been watching this discussion and wondering - how much of the
> > problems
> > people complain about would go away if here was a "teaching"
> distribution
> > of
> > python. That is one that did the equivalent of
> >
> > from teaching import *
>
> Nowadays, college students want to do "rea
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 6:22 pm, Dethe Elza wrote:
> On 6-Sep-06, at 2:51 PM, John Zelle wrote:
> > I believe that a good language is one that provides a natural way
> > to express
> > algorithms as we think about them. Python is one of the very best I
> > have
> > found for that. I believe
> As someone consistently upbeat about .NET and Mono (pronouced moe no,
> not mah no), I share Jim's excitement for the future. Will this be
> the last year I teach CPython for Saturday Academy? (I doubt it).
>
> Kirby
>
>>From Slashdot:
Blame me for the slashdot post. IronPython is an amazingly-
> -Original Message-
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> Behalf Of Michael
> Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] The fate of raw_input() in Python 3000
>
> I've been watching this discussion and wondering - how much of the
> problems
> people complain about would go away if here w
On 6-Sep-06, at 2:51 PM, John Zelle wrote:
> I believe that a good language is one that provides a natural way
> to express
> algorithms as we think about them. Python is one of the very best I
> have
> found for that. I believe (for reasons already stated) it is less good
> without raw_input
As someone consistently upbeat about .NET and Mono (pronouced moe no,
not mah no), I share Jim's excitement for the future. Will this be
the last year I teach CPython for Saturday Academy? (I doubt it).
Kirby
>From Slashdot:
"IronPython version 1.0 was just released after 3 years of
development
I've been watching this discussion and wondering - how much of the problems
people complain about would go away if here was a "teaching" distribution of
python. That is one that did the equivalent of
from teaching import *
to put things in the global namespace at start time. Generally this woul
I think John and Joshua both hit the nail on the head (below). In trying
to figure out what exactly it is that Pascal and Python have (and most
other tools do not), I came up with the idea of "pedagogical scalability".
Simply, these tools allow the user to do a lot early, but does not impose
any pa
On 9/6/06, John Zelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> People often say that Pascal was designed as a "teaching language." I remember
> a written interview with Nicklaus Wirth where he was asked what makes Pascal
> a good teaching language, and his reponse, as I remember it, was something
> like: Pasca
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 1:24 pm, Arthur wrote:
> John Zelle wrote:
> >I have no idea what you mean here. Speaking only for myself, I am simply
> >stating that a language that requires me to use an extended library to do
> >simple input is less useful as a teaching tool than one that does no
Arthur Siegel wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 21:36 -0500, John Zelle wrote:
>
>
>> It may not be on that scale, but it would certainly cause me to survey the
>> language landscape again to see if there are better languages for teaching.
>>
>
>
> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 09:45 -0500, Peter Ch
John Zelle wrote:
>On Wednesday 06 September 2006 8:00 am, Arthur Siegel wrote:
>
>
>>Being dispassionate on the issue itself - I have *never* used
>>raw_input() and, as it happens, I am generally literate enough at this
>>point so that the intentions of sys.stdin.readline is *clearer* to me
>>t
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 8:00 am, Arthur Siegel wrote:
> Being dispassionate on the issue itself - I have *never* used
> raw_input() and, as it happens, I am generally literate enough at this
> point so that the intentions of sys.stdin.readline is *clearer* to me
> than is raw_input() - I am
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 21:36 -0500, John Zelle wrote:
> It may not be on that scale, but it would certainly cause me to survey the
> language landscape again to see if there are better languages for teaching.
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 09:45 -0500, Peter Chase wrote:
> If you want to expose your stu
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