Re: [Edu-sig] Raspberry Pi?

2012-03-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 29.03.2012, at 17:49, kirby urner wrote: Raspberry Pi doesn't currently run Python but there is some thought that it should. Huh? This is what the FAQ says: http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs Does it have an official programming language? By default, we’ll be supporting Python as the

Re: [Edu-sig] Using try / except: any stipulations against routine use?

2011-12-14 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 14.12.2011, at 22:42, Vernon Cole wrote: Sorry, Kirby, I'm afraid I disagree. try: res_dict[ext] += 1 except KeyError: res_dict[ext] = 1 is clear in intent and operation. It is a self-initializing occurrence counter. On the other hand,

[Edu-sig] [OT] Re: Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg (2007)

2010-03-28 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 28.03.2010, at 07:54, kirby urner wrote: I tried introducing FOSS witch on Diversity (python.org) and appeared to get no takers. Hacker, pirate, wizard, geek, dictator... but not witch. Google for haecksen. The German word for witch is Hexe, plural Hexen. The German pronunciation of

Re: [Edu-sig] ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as Core Component of Science, Math Education

2008-12-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 25.12.2008, at 17:38, Daniel Ajoy wrote: On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:00:02 -0500, edu-sig-requ...@python.org wrote: From: Edward Cherlin 2008/12/23 michel paul : http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/obama-education Computing education benefits all students, not just those

Re: [Edu-sig] music:piano :: math:laptop ?

2008-12-16 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Not only math, but a computer can even be seen as an instrument whose music is ideas (*). On 16.12.2008, at 08:16, kirby urner wrote: Edward Cherlin's insistent pointing to the XO is helping turn some wheels on my end... Way cool that Gibson Guitar was a sponsor of OSCON that time, shows

Re: [Edu-sig] Tracing the Dynabook: A Dissertation

2007-01-21 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am Jan 21, 2007 um 15:25 schrieb Arthur: Paul D. Fernhout wrote: I think making easy and widely available this support for easy debugging into a function and changing it and restarting all in a still running application would be of great value to anyone learning through tinkering

Re: [Edu-sig] Edusig auf Deutsch [in German] using Babelfish

2007-01-18 Thread Bert Freudenberg
or usefulness of these automatic translations of edusig? Useful? Confusing? Useless? --Paul Fernhout Bert Freudenberg wrote: Am Jan 18, 2007 um 6:45 schrieb Paul D. Fernhout: so no matter how cheap you made distributing a diversity of text books or related educational materials, schools

Re: [Edu-sig] An OLPC comment (Why Educational Technology Has Failed Schools)

2007-01-18 Thread Bert Freudenberg
to at least try bablefish; it seems a miracle it works at all; I've used it a couple of times for translating Spanish sites about programming -- it's a funny experience to suddenly have such a site in a different language make (some) sense.. All the best. --Paul Fenrhout Bert

Re: [Edu-sig] An OLPC comment (Why Educational Technology Has Failed Schools)

2007-01-18 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am Jan 18, 2007 um 19:39 schrieb Paul D. Fernhout: I guess you have your work cut out for you then to write one. :-) Thanks for the comments on Babelfish. --Paul Fernhout P.S. [... links ...] I'll have a look there. I was actually hoping for a personal recommendation, but if you don't

Re: [Edu-sig] An OLPC comment

2007-01-17 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Hi Art, if you are interested in a serious discussion with OLPC, rather than just about OLPC, their open forum might be a better place than Python edu-sig. See http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo You might even get a response ;-) - Bert - Am Jan 17, 2007 um 15:15 schrieb Arthur:

Re: [Edu-sig] OLPC (was FYI: PataPata postmortem link)

2006-12-05 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Dec 3, 2006, at 20:34 , Winston Wolff wrote: On Nov 29, 2006, at 10:41 AM, Arthur wrote: Over the years, what I have discovered about educational software is that most of it is junk, and the really useful things to connect kids with are the open-ended packages which provide an avenue

Re: [Edu-sig] OLPC (was FYI: PataPata postmortem link)

2006-12-01 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Dec 1, 2006, at 3:23 , Dethe Elza wrote: The main wiki page for OLPC emulation is here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images_for_emulation Alright. I didn't know about that. I had seen a blog post (maybe yours, can't remember off-hand) that linked to images for VMWare. But the page

[Edu-sig] OLPC (was FYI: PataPata postmortem link)

2006-11-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Nov 29, 2006, at 13:00 , Arthur wrote: I fear not only that OLPC is turning into a toy, but a toy for the wrong follks, folks who have enough toys, rooms full of them, lost in their toys, blinking and whizzing hynoptic. Would you agree that the software (and not the greenish

Re: [Edu-sig] OLPC (was FYI: PataPata postmortem link)

2006-11-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Nov 29, 2006, at 14:39 , Arthur wrote: Bert Freudenberg wrote: On Nov 29, 2006, at 13:00 , Arthur wrote: I fear not only that OLPC is turning into a toy, but a toy for the wrong follks, folks who have enough toys, rooms full of them, lost in their toys, blinking and whizzing

Re: [Edu-sig] OLPC (was FYI: PataPata postmortem link)

2006-11-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Nov 29, 2006, at 16:06 , Tom Hoffman wrote: On 11/29/06, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 29, 2006, at 13:00 , Arthur wrote: I fear not only that OLPC is turning into a toy, but a toy for the wrong follks, folks who have enough toys, rooms full of them, lost

Re: [Edu-sig] Talking about Handles

2006-10-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 03.10.2006 um 00:47 schrieb kirby urner: This metaphor may be good for references, but not for Python. You are left with the intuition that you can look at the mug and enumerate the handles. Maybe a an object is a living thing with lasers shining on it (referring to it), that