Re: [Edu-sig] Using IDLE with students

2007-08-15 Thread John Zelle
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 9:04 am, Richard Guenther wrote: > Sorry if this is a bit simplistic: > > When teaching Python to beginners and using IDLE, it seems that one of the > dangers would be to have them assigning variables in the interactive mode > and then maybe using them in a script they

[Edu-sig] Using IDLE with students

2007-08-15 Thread Richard Guenther
Sorry if this is a bit simplistic: When teaching Python to beginners and using IDLE, it seems that one of the dangers would be to have them assigning variables in the interactive mode and then maybe using them in a script they're writing. Then, when they run the script, the variable is still i