Re: [Edu-sig] More on decorators

2008-03-31 Thread David MacQuigg
"Getting this right can be slightly brain-bending ..." quote from discussion on Decorators in What's New in Python 2.4. :( Kirby, I love your examples below!! Helped me understand the generality of the @ syntax (which I gave up on before the developers had finished their discussion), and the

Re: [Edu-sig] manifesto

2008-03-31 Thread David MacQuigg
At 10:50 AM 3/30/2008 -0700, you wrote: >My dept chair finally agreed to let me have an hour to present Python to the >math dept during our staff development day last Friday. I knew that an hour >wouldn't be enough, so I wrote a manifesto : ) which is attached. Excellent!! I'll pass this o

Re: [Edu-sig] teaching with python experience

2008-03-31 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
Hi Ishwar, You can find the original course proposal that I wrote at http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples/static/csc261.pdf This predates the idea of using a web framework. I do not have assignments because I did not teach this course myself. Massimo On Mar 31, 2008, at 4:08 PM, ISHWAR RAT

Re: [Edu-sig] teaching with python experience

2008-03-31 Thread kirby urner
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Massimo Di Pierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The basic idea was to follow the path of an HTTP request from > the moment its is generated by a browser until it reaches the server, is > processed and the response is sent back. You're probably aware of this mo