On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:32 AM, David MacQuigg
macqu...@ece.arizona.eduwrote:
OK, PyWhip is out. I'm still looking for something short and memorable.
How about PyJet? Fits right in with its most likely home on App Engine. I
can even imagine a logo with a jet engine strapped to a Python.
How about FlyPy as in taking her out for a test flight.
Snake with little wings as a logo?
Or maybe we're saving that for the airline. :)
Kirby
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Jeff Elkner j...@elkner.net wrote:
A sense of humor is a great thing, Jeremy, but in this case I'm
looking for a
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Andre Roberge andre.robe...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
Well, you can always have both using Firefox ... and Crunchy. ;-) It does
work with Python 3.1.
Thanks André.
I was impressed by your demo last year at Pycon and have played with
Crunchy since.
I
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote:
I just added Names item to this page, so if you are interested in
contributing, say so there.
Cheers,
Maria Droujkova
http://www.naturalmath.com
Make math your own, to make your own math.
Would a link to Digital
The Executable Mathematics branch on in this web frame gives some
sense of where the Math 2.0 group is going with Python.
We've been discussing a possible conference, might double as an eduPycon.
http://mind42.com/pub/mindmap?mid=dec0c458-c74e-4057-b041-c74d26b986e0
You'll see Python mentioned
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Phil Wagner philhwag...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
Thank you all for your enthusiasm and support, I am so excited to be a part
of this.
Phil
philhwag...@gmail.com
Got it.
Internet slow today per thread below:
Hi Andre --
So my blurb about Crunch Frog just made it through moderation:
http://groups.google.com/group/pinoy-python-users/browse_thread/thread/64359b0e5f22f919?hl=en
I hope this will get a few new users trying out your learning harness.
I went to high school in Manila, while dad worked
Per some thread in the Philippines I'm following, a guy teaching new
users using 3.1 in pure IDLE is frustrating finding that frustrating,
too much crashing.
I've heard that before, but haven't encountered much yet, testing on
Win7 and Ubuntu 9.10 these days.
Wing101 and most other IDEs (e.g.
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:33 PM, David MacQuigg macqu...@ece.arizona.edu wrote:
csev wrote:
On Feb 5, 2010, at 9:31 PM, kirby urner wrote:
What I'm not seeing here is any plans to venture into user-defined types
i.e. rolling your own classes.
I am indeed tempted into user-defined types
I've been offering some pointers to this gentleman
in Indonesia wishing to learn Python.
What's clear to me is he's chomping at the bit to
get to the most impressive use case demonstrations,
involving VPython, matplotlib, other 3rd party packages.
He's not giving himself much time to just mess
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:49 AM, David MacQuigg
macqu...@ece.arizona.edu wrote:
When I hear Object Oriented Programming, I think of something much more
difficult than the examples you have shown, something that might even get
into the intricacies of MRO, something that is normally taught
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:40 PM, michel paul mpaul...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
A truly excellent write-up Michel.
I'm glad you're reminding us about Sage.
Your use of Computational Thinking (CT) mirrors Maria's suggestion for
what a course of this nature might be called. Computational Analysis
From: kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Math + Python: reviewing some themes (long)
To: edu-sig@python.org
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:53 AM, David MacQuigg
macqu...@ece.arizona.edu wrote:
kirby urner wrote:
I've been hyping digital
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:20 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
In sum, I think the best way to teach OO is not make it *not* a strictly
computer science topic, but just a science topic more generally.
Messed that one up eh?
Make it *not* a strictly computer science topic...
So
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Litvin lit...@skylit.com wrote:
Me too -- by a factor of two. At least. So what? First language
discussions flare up regularly on the ap-compsci listserve. In this forum,
Python would win, of course. :) I am all for Python, but I don't believe in
the
Hi Brian --
If you wanna go to a lot of work, but not a huge amount, write wrapper class
for the Standard Library turtle that intercepts its commands and updates an
on-board data structure, representing pixels x pixels, specifying self
position, keep color info stashed per each one. That's a lot
Greetings edu-sig folks:
I've got a somewhat long one here. I encourage any responders not to quote
the whole thing, just go for the gusto and quote the one thing you wanna do
a thread on? I welcome changes to the subject line. One of my bad habits
is to introduce new topics in response to a
Greetings edu-sig peers.
Kirby from Portland, Oregon (MLK Weedend, 2010)
FYI here's me posting in a recent thread, Philippines user group:
http://groups.google.com/group/pinoy-python-users/browse_thread/thread/ad517401b06d7100?hl=en
Parking some pointers, recycling some good stuff:
pointers
Some notes on:
Mathematics for the Digital Age and
Programming in Python, 2nd Edition
by Maria Litvin and Gary Litvin
===
I just got my evaluation copy of the 2nd edition and I've been
plowing through it eagerly.
For those just joining, I've been somewhat zealously proposing
we converge math
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Andre Roberge andre.robe...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, here's the revised version (please feel free to suggest changes):
I think your new verbiage is well crafted. I understand what you mean about
why people unfamiliar with Python might want to start with 2.6 /
[ thread moved to edu-sig ]
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote:
Some of my kids are about to start using Python for our Physics and
Modeling, up from Scratch. I am scared to death and still have not selected
a version for them. All of them run Windows
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Vern Ceder vce...@canterburyschool.org wrote:
kirby urner wrote:
I'm wondering if this should be fine tuned to more explicitly
encourage 2.6 and above if doing Python 2 (because of
3rd party dependencies), 3.x in all other cases.
+1
2.6 has the new format
Current verbiage:
As a result of the changes, programs written for Python 2 are likely
to be incompatible with Python 3 (and vice-versa). Since both versions
are going to co-exist for a while, a choice has to be made as to which
one to use. As a very subjective opinion, we would like to offer
Greetings to edu-sig friends, HNY!
Kirby
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Date: Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Subject: student project (market reseach)
Slinging code from this resource:
http://uswaretech.com/blog/2009/06/bing-python-api/
More
, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
FYI mentions Python in connection with constructivism a few times, also
OLPC and MIT:
http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2019948tstart=0
Comments welcome of course.
Kirby
--
from mars import math
http://www.wikieducator.org
FYI mentions Python in connection with constructivism a few times, also OLPC
and MIT:
http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2019948tstart=0
Comments welcome of course.
Kirby
--
from mars import math
http://www.wikieducator.org/Digital_Math
I should perhaps direct this to a marketing list, but then it's more
about Drupal than Python if you read the whole thing.
PHP is our friend, is one of those P languages from LAMP days,
before CMS and web frameworks and Ruby on Rails (with which relations
are also friendly, thanks to Django's
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
An old friend, ex-IBM, ex-Wall Street, is working on a new Open Source
APL which he and I intend to get into the Sugar education software for
OLPC. I can't tell you any more than that until he puts code out for
the
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:04 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
Next I will post you something on the Global Warming thread on the
Wikieducator list.
Kirby
[1] From my journal: http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2009/12/portland-notes.html
[2] http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2009
I'm glad turtle graphics intersected my thinking re extended precision
decimals (Decimal type) on edu-sig just now.
I've updated my tmods.py to contain a turtle rendering the plane-net of a T-mod:
http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/tmod.py (runnable source)
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:58 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
print K Module
print K in tetravolumes: , kvol * syn3
print Rh Triacontrahedron: , 120 * kvol * syn3
I'm now comparing output from this script on Ubuntu netbook Python 2.6
and WinXP HP desktop Python 3.1
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
Drunkard's Walk.
If our think tank (isepp.org) could have gotten permission, we'd have
used that Monopoly guy (looks kinda like Planters peanut guy) randomly
walking on like some chess board with a lamp post
Some of you will have seen this, apropos edu-sig.
Note that virtual posters have a later deadline.
Kirby
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From: Catherine Devlin catherine.dev...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Subject: PyCon Posters deadline looms: Nov. 30
To:
My thanks to Carl Trachte for reminding me to make this link to a
famous photograph of Ernest Hemingway:
http://marbury.typepad.com/marbury/2009/09/kicking-the-can-down-the-road.html
I've taken to binding kick to next (a built-in) and kicking the
can down the road as my metaphor for iterating
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 22:20, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote:
In a message of Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:27:35 PST, Edward Cherlin writes:
Cards: You are right on the merits for combinatory math, but you will
run into
system language, e.g. Python and C, or Jython and
Java.
Kirby
4D
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 19:55, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm becoming more enamored of the idea of using playing cards as a
standard feature in my Python pedagogy and andragogy (means teaching
adults). Not only do
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote:
In a message of Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:27:35 PST, Edward Cherlin writes:
Cards: You are right on the merits for combinatory math, but you will
run into strong cultural aversions.
Why? Especially when _dice_ seem to be the
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Travis Vaught tra...@vaught.net wrote:
On Nov 3, 2009, at 10:04 AM, kirby urner wrote:
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
Cards: You are right on the merits for combinatory math, but you will
run into strong cultural
I'm becoming more enamored of the idea of using playing cards as a
standard feature in my Python pedagogy and andragogy (means teaching
adults). Not only do we have the standard deck, but also Tarot which
could get us more into text files, string substitution
(string.Template) and so forth.
I was thinking more about this Python for Philosophers thread and
decided to write some pathological Python to help make a point,
thought readers here might be interested...
Note in the short class definition below, that not only do I not use
the name 'self' (which is not a keyword) but I use
/airplane-reading.html
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:25, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been seeing some conversations aimed at expanding the Python
community (the community of Python users) beyond the world of computer
science and IT, into the Liberal Arts more generally.[0] Of course
I've been seeing some conversations aimed at expanding the Python
community (the community of Python users) beyond the world of computer
science and IT, into the Liberal Arts more generally.[0] Of course
this is music to my ears.
Parallel to this notion that ordinary math learning would be
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:25 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
trim
ADDENDUM:
[0] http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20090831.140043.d7465e01.en.html
I acknowledge in advance that some here may send up a red flag re my
citing of a post by Xah Lee.
The late Arthur Siegel
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:44 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
trim
The little challenges posed to students in this annual contest are
pretty good. I should do more to get them on the web someplace, had
earlier contacted their author for a PDF version -- let's see if I can
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote:
A problem arises when one has to learn new material. For many of us,
actually writing the material down makes us retain it better. And for
me, at any rate, writing it down in longhand works better for the
memorisation
Those of you frequenting this list for some years will recognize most
of these themes. From time to time I like to archive a summary.
Principal themes:
I. Math Objects (an approach to learning math)
II. Objects First (an approach to learning programming)
These two go hand-in-hand.
Math
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, you're on the right track. All of schooling is based on medieval
metaphors (such as the lecture, originally for purposes of dictation
in the days before printing) and the history of thought, instead of
the logic of
1-2-3 testing. Just testing the archives, seeing how it looks when it
gets there.
Some thought going into making another Python list with English not
the official language (there's only one other meeting that description
according to my sources).
This might be a good test of anyone's email
and relevant)
Kirby Urner
PSF 09
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Date: Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Your message to Diversity awaits moderator approval
To: Catherine Devlin catherine.dev...@gmail.com
Cc: Aahz a...@pythoncraft.com
to the Diversity mailing list
Posting of your message titled Re: [Diversity] Admin: Kirby Urner
now moderated
has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the
following reason for rejecting your request:
Your message was deemed inappropriate by the moderator.
Aahz: I was going
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Aahz a...@pythoncraft.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009, Steve Holden wrote:
A little discussion is indeed in order - including when we are going to
start up the diversity-SIG list to run along the lines of other Python
SIGs.
Starting diversity-sig has
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:46 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
The code below isn't stellar, but has some pedagogical value nevertheless.
Indeed the code was far from stellar, however it gave some direction.
The version below is in Python 3.1 and demonstrates primitive
conditionals
, Malbolge, and many more, some designed to
be fun, some just to prove it could be done, and some to be evil.
thanks!
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 13:36, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
What do we mean by computer language?
What do we mean by computer?
Right here we could fork off
What do we mean by computer language? One could answer in terms of
using text to control electronics, and that would be accurate.
However there's also the goal of a philosophical logic: to express
situations in the world, to mirror them for the purposes of
simulation.
The veteran programmer of
The code below isn't stellar, but has some pedagogical value nevertheless.
In general, I'm looking at constituting a deck of 52 cards, or 54 with
two jokers, this time with each card an object.
In a C struct, you could imagine the suit (e.g. Diamond), rank (e.g.
Jack) and value (e.g. 11) all
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:24 AM, roberto robert...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, this post is a request of a mix of:
your help (one half)
your scientific experience (one half)
i plan to ground my math teaching experience on an inquiry based
approach to learning (i think you know definitely better
of advice: stick to world
domination as our shared goal of our geek subculture, and we'll all
get along just fine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157...@n00/3639256600/in/set-72157619963850814/
Kirby Urner
in Portland
Related blog posts:
http://coffeeshopsnet.blogspot.com/2009/06/os-bridge
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Cherlin
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:06 AM
To: kirby urner
Cc: edu-sig@python.org
Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] poking some dying logs...
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:36 PM, kirby urnerkirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote
I have high regard for Crunchy Frog, another Monty Python allusion (I
make sure kids learn). I also met a music band recently by that name,
includes didgeridoo playing. Perhaps we'll see some YouTube
commercials for this free product soon?
I encourage open source developers to create demand for
Me:
Also, J is significantly different from APL, just just in terms of
using ASCII instead of those non-Latin-1 operators, however once again
the family grouping is correct.
not just in terms of
... here's a link to that paper Iverson helped me with:
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Phil Wagner pwag...@hightechhigh.org wrote:
Often I am asked for a quick demonstration about the power of Python,
sometimes for people with no computer science background. What can I show
expose at that code in the context of a __ribs__
first approach (= ObjectsFirst [tm]).
In general, I like using a 3D graphical engine for all my 2D work,
as that gives you the freedom to rotate the camera position. POV-Ray
and x3d (= VRML + XML) would be another two formats.
Kirby Urner
From: kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: Geometries, irrationals (was Re: [Edu-sig] thought re
graphing calculators ...)
To: Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com
Cc: Gregor Lingl gregor.li...@aon.at, edu-sig@python.org
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:21 PM
.
Peano, Hausdorff, Julia, Koch, and many others were also playing with
fractals starting more than a century ago.
Kirby
Or you could say Phi (golden mean) is the Phirst Phractal (certainly
the recursivity is there in the algebra).
Kirby Urner
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Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Gregor Lingl gregor.li...@aon.at wrote:
The ability to brute force these data points with a self-feedback
circuit governed by various expressions, is for computers and
computers only. Humans by themselves aren't even in the game. At the
very least you'll
to mind
(ronresch.com).
Kirby Urner
4dsolutions.net
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Helene Martin lognatu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
As some of you know, I teach high school classes in Seattle. Students
have been loving Python so far! They've been able to dive right in
and get some interesting
2009/9/28 Brian Blais bbl...@bryant.edu:
trim
Just a month ago, a friend of mine who homeschools her children was asking
me about graphing calculators. Apparently the math curriculum she uses has
a number of graphic calculator exercises. My advice was to buy a nice
solar-powered
trim
Well, the curricula have been customized to fit what the calculator
can do, with encouragement towards the more upscale models that do
some graphing and CAS (fractor equations, solve integrals...). A lot
of what passes for math in this day and age is just a glorified
calculator, your
instead of the floating type, converting to float just to make
your turtle happy:
# File: tdemo_chaos.py
# Author: Gregor Lingl
# amended to use Decimal by Kirby Urner 2009-09-28
# Date: 2009-06-24
# A demonstration of chaos
from turtle import *
from decimal import Decimal
k = Decimal('3.9')
N
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Gregor Lingl gregor.li...@aon.at wrote:
kirby urner schrieb:
Hi Brian,
This ran perfectly on Python 3.1rc1 (r31rc1:73069, May 31 2009,
08:57:10) on my WinXP box (one of a few).
Note: if this level of chaos / noise bothers you (the functions
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:03 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Gregor Lingl gregor.li...@aon.at wrote:
kirby urner schrieb:
Hi Brian,
This ran perfectly on Python 3.1rc1 (r31rc1:73069, May 31 2009,
08:57:10) on my WinXP box (one of a few
2009/9/27 Charles Cossé cco...@gmail.com:
Hi, this has probably been discussed to death already, but maybe not: The
point at which fancy graphing calculators become necessary (ie as in one's
student career) is the point at which the calculator should be abandoned and
Python employed. Just a
Here's a lesson plan working directly in the shell, though it'd be
fine to call this up as pre-saved scaffolding.
Sometimes you just wanna project and type live while talking, students
following along, asking questions, or watching on ShowMeDo or one of
those.
class Reptile:
def
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Andre Roberge andre.robe...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
Not mine either...
True enough, although there's a wiki sandbox where just about anything
goes, including the diversity list airing some dirty laundry.
languages may not be
a priority, not my call.
I've sent word of the Litvins text to Palestine where elite schools
might start using it, we shall see.
A goal is to not recapitulate the mistakes of USA-based computer
science curricula which tend to be ethnocentric in unfortunate ways.
Kirby Urner
one.
Some of you will have already seen the below as we have some cross-enrollment.
Kirby
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From: kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Subject: Diversity Report from DjangoCon
To: divers...@python.org
report type=diversity
snip
You know, I'm having trouble reconstructing how I came to the view
that Ruby has quasi-native access to OpenGL. I think it was a few
OSCONs back when I was intent on immersing myself in Ruby, went to a
couple tutorials, the talk by Matz. My recollection is sitting there
in an
this evening.
Kirby Urner
@thekirbster
@ It's a Beautiful Pizza
Lindsey Walker Show
myspace.com/4dstudios
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2009/09/4d-studios.html
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On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:26 PM, kirby urnerkirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
Anyway, it's all way cool and math related. GIS is all about
polygons. If you're a math teacher looking for applications, here
they are. But then a school needs strong IT to move into these areas.
Who on
Some of you may have been peeking at my blogs, where I'm packing in
details re DjangoCon, ongoing in Portland.
I'm getting a lot of validation for this idea of bringing GIS / GPS
closer to the core curriculum (talking high school servers) with all
these local data sources about real world
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Laura Creightonl...@openend.se wrote:
What I need to find out before going too far with this is:
(a) do we already have exactly what I'm seeking as a public project?
Not that I know of. And given that after 'I want to make a game' this
is the number 1 thing
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Andre Roberge andre.robe...@gmail.comwrote:
Dear Kirby,
Many times on this list and elsewhere (
http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2006/08/python-pedagogy.html and
http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2006/09/lunch-on-hawthorne.html) you have
written about Python's
As poet Gene Fowler used to remind me occasionally, sometimes you *do*
want to reinvent the wheel, because that's a learning experience. As
we climb the ladder of learning (old metaphor), we sometimes cut our
teeth on time-tested exercises.
Textbooks have set the standard in the pre-millenium,
By Kirby Urner, 4Dsolutions.net
for Oregon Curriculum Network
(copyleft) 2009
casino_math was originally developed as part of a pilot project
for gnu math teachers in the Greater Portland area
Bug reports: kirby.ur...@gmail.com
Code repository: 4dsolutions.net/ocn/python
import random
This might be from a 3rd hour in our casino math segment.
There's no deep math here, just getting familiar with dot notation,
methods disguised as attributes (properties):
import random
class Deck:
def __init__(self):
self.deck = [
(suit + str(rank))
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Edward Cherlinecher...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
I am working on how to teach CS ideas in third grade using tools such
as Etoys Smalltalk, UCBLogo, and Turtle Art, all of which are packaged
in Sugar for the OLPC XO and other Linuces. Etoys and UCBLogo are
.
http://earthtreasury.org/
Kirby Urner
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2 ** 1
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Helene Martinlognatu...@gmail.com wrote:
Our user group PPUG has kept bringing up Sage (the free Python
product) and the Sage community as one to get work with. But our
ranks include mostly family guys or up and coming private sector,
precious few in the
Here's a link from MPG @ math-teach / Math Forum re a PyNomo
http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/2009/07/31/creating-nomograms-with-the-pynomo-software/
I'm studying the docs and seeing a student would be picking up a lot
of LaTex, skills related to publishing formally in mathematical
journals
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Jeff Rushj...@taupro.com wrote:
Lloyd Hugh Allen wrote:
I'm a math teacher who uses python for personal purposes, but the cs
teacher in my building told me that the higher level cs ab ap was axed
for this year - that could contribute to lower enrollment.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Jeff Rushj...@taupro.com wrote:
wesley chun wrote:
AP CS Courses (and Students) on the Decline, CSTA Survey Finds
This spring, the 2009 CSTA National Secondary Computer Science Survey
collected responses from some 1,100 high school Computer Science
teachers.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Helene Martinlognatu...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think members of the K-12 CS education community were entirely
comfortable with the way the article you quote interpreted the
research or even the research itself. For example, the survey is of
self-identified
, invite 10 other people, call it a circle. :)
Kirby
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Gregor Lingl gregor.li...@aon.at wrote:
kirby urner schrieb:
Been sharing some Python lore with Wittgenstein fans (obscure,
esoteric philosopher of 1900s vintage).
Hi Kirby, again,
as someone
I'm thinking more could be made of this piano teacher business as
what's needed are cultural templates (design patterns) that're already
debugged, plus register as familiar.
People have this picture of the geek squad or geek troubleshooter
coming to your house to clean off the viruses, give a few
From the diversity list, just passing it on:
http://micheinnz.livejournal.com/1080735.html
Python features in this science experiment.
Kirby
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Michael Sparksspark...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/8/20 kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com:
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There's also the new title Python Programming in Context which is of
direct interest to educators.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157...@n00/3800868585/
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From: kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Diversity] Okay, here's the deal.
To: divers...@python.org
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Rami Chowdhuryrami.chowdh...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sorry, I'd just like
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Andre Robergeandre.robe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:28 PM, kirby urnerkirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's something I posted recently to the new diversity list (check
list of lists), thought I'd better run it by here as I don't think
Andre
كيربي Urner 's CP4E الموارد البرمجة بيثون دمج مواضيع في الرياضيات.
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:03 PM, kirby urnerkirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Andre Robergeandre.robe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:28 PM, kirby urnerkirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
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