Re: [Edu-sig] online coding?

2013-03-19 Thread Rakesh Barve
Hi I am not an expert but one recent development is dynamic languages such as Python can now be interpreted and run inside browsers, making it possible to do the below kind of stuff as well as execution with no need of servers. One such example seems to be http://pythonlearn.com/pythonauto/index.

Re: [Edu-sig] Big thanks to Naomi Ceder for putting together the EDU Summit!

2013-03-19 Thread Naomi Ceder
I can honestly say that it was my pleasure... this realized a dream I'd had for a few years. Look for some new developments from the summit, and let's keep up the contacts with all facets of the Python/education communities. And yes, I am planning to do it again next year, so if you attended pleas

Re: [Edu-sig] online coding?

2013-03-19 Thread Andre Roberge
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Karine Laidley wrote: > Dear Python users, > > ** ** > > I wanted to check with you if you know of a good site that allows students > to submit Python code to be checked for correctness. I know there is a > codebat site but I found it limited in what it offer

[Edu-sig] online coding?

2013-03-19 Thread Karine Laidley
Dear Python users, I wanted to check with you if you know of a good site that allows students to submit Python code to be checked for correctness. I know there is a codebat site but I found it limited in what it offers. Ideally, I want to offer students problems to solve from simple print state

Re: [Edu-sig] Big thanks to Naomi Ceder for putting together the EDU Summit!

2013-03-19 Thread Andrew Harrington
+1 Andy On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Jeff Elkner wrote: > We all owe a big thank you to Naomi Ceder for all the work she put in > organizing the EDU Summit. After spending years at Pycons meeting > with the between 5 and 10 people at the conference interested in > Python in Education over a

[Edu-sig] Big thanks to Naomi Ceder for putting together the EDU Summit!

2013-03-19 Thread Jeff Elkner
We all owe a big thank you to Naomi Ceder for all the work she put in organizing the EDU Summit. After spending years at Pycons meeting with the between 5 and 10 people at the conference interested in Python in Education over a dinner, it was exciting indeed to see 90+ people this year. Thanks, N

[Edu-sig] Python at the University of São Paulo

2013-03-19 Thread Jeff Elkner
Luciano Ramalho stopped by at the Pycon sprint to tell me that the University of São Paulo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_S%C3%A3o_Paulo) recently adopted Python in its Introductory CS program. I told him I would pass this good news along to the edu-sig, and invited him to join us on

Re: [Edu-sig] Python Epistemology

2013-03-19 Thread Kirby Urner
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Kirby Urner wrote: << snip >> > We're on the same page as the Mathematica people here, and I don't think > we should worry about any winner-take-all, king-of-the-hill story here. > IPython Notebook has a Mathematica flavor and that's fine, so does Sage. > We're