Re: [Edu-sig] PyWhip ???

At 04:58 PM 3/3/2009 -0800, kirby urner wrote: >I also invite visitors to my Oregon Curriculum Network site: > >http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/cp4e.html > >The Pythonic Math at this site is better than anything else on the Web >as of March, 2009, bar none. We're looking for something more interac

Re: [Edu-sig] CTL: Computer Thinking Language

At 08:09 PM 3/3/2009 -0800, michel paul wrote: >On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:27 PM, David MacQuigg ><macqu...@ece.arizona.edu> wrote: >> Before I discovered Python a couple of years ago I was experimenting with a pseudo-code approach for expressing math concep

Re: [Edu-sig] PyWhip ???

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, David MacQuigg wrote: > At 04:58 PM 3/3/2009 -0800, kirby urner wrote: > >>I also invite visitors to my Oregon Curriculum Network site: >> >>http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/cp4e.html >> >>The Pythonic Math at this site is better than anything else on the Web >>as of

Re: [Edu-sig] CTL: Computer Thinking Language

> OK, let's stick with 'return' unless someone comes up with a better word or > symbol.  At least it is a common keyword in all the languages that students > are likely to move up to.  Nothing to unlearn. > Or "down to" -- most languages tend to be lower level than Python. A common next destina

[Edu-sig] Fwd: All PyCon Tutorials are "On"

Looks like we're a go for 'Python for Teachers', even if it's an intimate group, more like a planning meeting (strategy session), moving on to Phase 2 (starting from Phase 0 of course)... I did some outreach to classroom math teachers via the Chicago chipy, got some interesting feedback. Teachers

[Edu-sig] sharing charter school resources

Here's a list of resources being consulted by Matsu District (AK) c/o one of the leading activists in the region. Note that Oregon Curriculum Network is included as one of these resources, plus Anna has made two special trips for planning meetings, got on the Wanderers boat, participated in a mana

[Edu-sig] TraceyText - A web tool for single-stepping through source code.

I've created a JavaScript tool called TraceyText. It basically creates web pages that can display the source code of a program and annotate each step with notes. This allows you to go through a run of a program step by step with explanations on the way. I created this to demo the small games I mad