Congratulations Vern.
Perhaps you could send verbiage describing this plan to edu-sig page
webmaster for inclusion, along with Litvins etc.
I have a request in to receive back control of this page in 30 days if
nothing happens, we'll see how that goes.
Kirby
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:32 PM,
Here's a blog post about the meeting below. Our venue was Sherwood
High School, some 15 miles or so south of the Portland city limits.
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2009/08/education-planning.html
I don't mention Python much in the post, but that's a language many
assumed we'd be using,
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Scott David
Danielsscott.dani...@acm.org wrote:
kirby urner wrote:
... Another piece of feedback came from this PSU professor who really
likes the language but found IDLE to be almost a show stopper on her
Mac, as it'd crash and then not reboot because of some
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Edward Cherlinecher...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:36 PM, kirby urnerkirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to make another plug for including this title on the edu-sig home
page:
http://www.skylit.com/mathandpython.html
Ian thought it was too
Thanks for you feedback Edward.
I have an all day meeting Aug 7 focusing on computer science teaching
issues, hosted by the same lobbying group that showed me this book in
the first place, have the complete text in PDF.
Here's the agenda for that meeting FYI:
Goal: Identify steps to
Another hot button issue in Portland these days is whether families
have the right to demand a PDF version of any assigned textbook,
versus a hardcopy edition. We have lots of tree huggers around here,
worried about green and unsustainability. To quote one of my
colleagues (from her blog):
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:17 AM, kirby urnerkirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
Another hot button issue in Portland these days is whether families
have the right to demand a PDF version of any assigned textbook,
versus a hardcopy edition. We have lots of tree huggers around here,
worried about
The initial article was mine. I said that I would like PyCON better
if there was some way to get a track of 'what have you been doing
lately'. The sort of talks that would not get accepted to PyCON
because they are not polished enough, or not of interest to a large
enough segment of the
I should add to this that my friend David Feinstein has pioneered a
trully elegant set of software tools, in cahoots with a talented
Javascript programmer, that help judges with caucusing, the process
they enter into in order to determine the top three projects, if a
best in show approach is in
I'd like to make another plug for including this title on the edu-sig home page:
http://www.skylit.com/mathandpython.html
Ian thought it was too much a hybrid of CS and math, not an elegant
amalgamation, though I don't have has remarks in front of me at the
moment. Steve was gonna get back to
So my first reply to this ended up on the EduPython Google Group,
obscure, but with its own advantages (better profile tracking,
something Python.org doesn't support as we don't have user login).
This one made it to edu-sig archive no problemo, however I was
nonplussed by some of the typos so
Awesome.
I'm working with a Jordanian group, haven't gotten that far yet, just
looking at Javascript talk balloons that come up in different
languages depending on setting (UrbanEdibles mashup, moving to
Django).
http://urbanedibles.org/
Python is a great first language for non-English
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Daniel Ajoyda.a...@gmail.com wrote:
http://jackcoughonsoftware.blogspot.com/2009/05/teaching-functional-programming-to-kids.html
What happens if we put one machine into the slot of another machine?
That's silly, Daddy!
Daniel
Hmph, this fun post jumped
background have little trouble understanding,
but in some circles its still a new idea that everyone would be
interested in programming for some reason.
Kirby
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Date: Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Subject: Proposal
is correct.)
Regards,
Gregor
kirby urner schrieb:
Just adding to what's on file, not sure this is a must have but it's
fun to do, especially given the association of Bernoulli Numbers with
the first computer program as scoped out in Ada's notes:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157...@n00
Just adding to what's on file, not sure this is a must have but it's
fun to do, especially given the association of Bernoulli Numbers with
the first computer program as scoped out in Ada's notes:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157...@n00/3718903352/sizes/o/ (shell
view, Akbar font)
attitude towards diversity seems more prevalent
in less sophisticated corporate cultures, anti-cosmopolitan,
illiberal. Just my take. Maybe he's just a loose cannon.
http://www.slate.com/id/564?nav=wp
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Date: 2009/7/12
I was happy to hear from Vern about his and Jeff's experiences at NECC
conference, as I briefly notate in my blog:
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2009/07/planning-charter.html (PSF was
officially invested here)
More recently, I briefly re-visited the PSF's decision to dump
Gattegno for the
Yo guy! -- New Jerseyism (a home sweet home)
Looking forward to posters about your work at Pycon, fed through our
VC, showing kids blissing out on Turtle Art, indeed a perennial genre,
see no chance of its fading, just abetting with 3D turtles in a
turtle tank (yes already been done, I know
Ya know, that's really excellent.
I was just pumping my fist in the air for Canada (yay Canada) and then
this hits my inbox.
Wearing my TV producer hat, the biggest kick is when little kids
aren't afraid to be eloquent and pithy on TV, and here ya have it,
gets other kids to sit up and listen
Fantastic.
Hey Trevor, check this out. Ulam spiral and Python, handsome!
Kirby
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Daniel Ajoyda.a...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jhw/spirals/index.html
Daniel
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I've got this thread going with holdenweb re the ideal classroom
configuration.
Like, we're all familiar with conference venues, where we just balance
a laptop or share power strips around tables, but for one's workaday
environment, where one has more control over layout, what would be
your ideal
Greetings edu-siggers --
I'm still decompressing from an intensive 3-day OS Bridge conference
here in Portland, Oregon. Having a purely Portland management and
local focus made this a rather different experience, a small gem actually,
well run and cram packed with interesting talent and talks,
SNIP
Turnout was low (lots of empty chairs) but it's quality not quantity.
I had a professor from Linnfield College who'd been to my OSCON
talk years ago. He came right up to me and said that as a result
of that talk he'd gone straight back and started wheels turning,
getting Python
** Don't say mah-no though, if you mean the Novell product Mono.
That's definitely moe no for Monkey. If you don't get that it's
monkey, you lose half the branding, not to mention you'll sound like a
bloody Anglophone who's had a few too many.
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coyote_academy -1 points0 points1 point 207 milliseconds ago[-]
The curriculum I've been using in Portland, Oregon is vector
intensive, with scaffolding like stickworks.py, documented and
explained on ShowMeDo. For output, we use x3D (VRML) and POV-Ray, a
free ray tracer, no Internet required,
Yeah, I shoulda mentioned my stickworks.py is a wrapper for VPython,
but that's obvious on the Showmedo tape.
Good seeing your stuff progressing Stef, I know I've linked to it.
Many 100s of pages on VPython in my blogs, for those seeking ideas for using it.
IDLE 1.2.1
for thing in
This weekend I was privileged to join a former student's graduation
festivities. His family sought me out through Saturday Academy, the
word of mouth school we use to recruit for various walks of life, by
inspiring a love of the field. We do have a Google Video ad, but that
maybe counts as part
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Laura Creightonl...@openend.se wrote:
What kind of money are you looking for to replace your laptop?
Laura
That's a kind question Laura, OK asking the list. ;)
It's a relief to have so much in the way of pictures and source code
etc. already uploaded, so its
Brief mention of Python on Math Forum this morning, in same sentence
as Mathematica, though I don't see them as filling the same market
niche (partially overlapping though, yes):
http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=1949352tstart=0
This guy Gary at work one time wanted my analysis of
Danielsscott.dani...@acm.org wrote:
kirby urner wrote:
I haven't tried 3.1 yet, have been using dictionary versus list to
harp on the cardinality vs. ordinality distinction (per Midhat
Gazale), understand there's a new kind of dictionary that has
ordinal properties
You really should. The io module
Python seems a very non-controversial pick, plus there's student
leadership on this issue, i.e. if you allow a choice, see what
happens. As Jeff points out, they don't seem to suffer, in aggregate,
for choosing the better language. :) Actually, learning Python
provides great motivation for then
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:45 PM, kirby urnerkirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
Hey, I was just learning from David Beazley on Safari that __repr__ is
generally supposed to emit a string that'll eval right back to the
object represented. So if I have Modulo type and go k = Modulo(10)
then
Hey, didn't know that!
And that *is* a Funny class you made there, quite twisted thx!
Kirby
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Scott David
Danielsscott.dani...@acm.org wrote:
kirby urner wrote:
... Hey, did you know Ellipsis is a new primitive object in Python 3,
denoted
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:22 AM, kirby urnerkirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
I was reading about descriptors, again per Holden workshop, and
noticing the author adding at class level, but never making use of the
passed instance argument, only self (inside the descriptor).
Below is the
:
Scott David Daniels wrote:
kirby urner wrote:
... Hey, did you know Ellipsis is a new primitive object ...
Actually, it has been around for quite a while [broken example]
[fixed example]
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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Laura Creightonl...@openend.se wrote:
I no longer think that the problem is that the '=' symbol is overloaded.
I now believe that the problem is that when we, as teachers teach Python,
we read a = b as
'a equals b'
Yeah, the word overloaded is itself
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:52 AM, kirby urnerkirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
OK, time for my first meeting of the day... I have this neolithic
math component in our place based curriculum. We keep going back to
this cave man setting, but lo and behold their inner circle know
quite a bit
Scott:
The media course
used Python as the language. The new media course achieved an 85%
success rate for the three groups above, and had women succeeding at
the same or better rates than the male students.
Interesting stuff Scott.
My eldest did a combined theater-CS major in Tennessee
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:43 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I filed the following quick comment after viewing a six minute
tutorial on variables and values at ShowMeDo.
The video:
http://showmedo.com
Simple randomizer and tally machine.
Drop a ball 'howmany' times so it falls
left or right for 'howmany' rows of
pegs -- like Pachinko
http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/graphics/randtrianim.gif
(c) GPL, 4D OCN 2009
Python 3.0.1 (r301:69556, Mar 14 2009, 14:06:26)
[GCC 4.2.4 (Ubuntu
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Daniel Ajoy da.a...@gmail.com wrote:
I've some other candidates that I have included in my Logo Functional
Extensions (LogoFE).
* A function that receives a math function and plots it.
* A function that receives a math equation and an interval and finds a
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:43 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I filed the following quick comment after viewing a six minute
tutorial on variables and values at ShowMeDo.
The video:
http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=6950010fromSeriesID=695
My comment:
idea
Some of you will maybe have seen David Goodger's announcement of a new
Python community list focused on Python conferences:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/conferences
I was hanging out at the virtual water cooler with PSF's Jeff Rush,
mentioning his eduPycon idea, thinking we might have
I filed the following quick comment after viewing a six minute
tutorial on variables and values at ShowMeDo.
The video:
http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=6950010fromSeriesID=695
My comment:
idea that values are stored into a variable is less the metaphor in
Python, which is more
Thanks Ed.
I twittered scoping this ACM page in advance of your comment, which
then appeared for analysis.
Nice one.
I think you're right on the too early to tell plus it's really
interesting how, when I flash my XOs around town, you'll get these
angry faces when I mentioned you can't just go
Hey thanks for the pointer Gerry, I'll be interested in others'
opinions of that analysis.
Mine is somewhat different in that I think real tangible evidence of a
positive future is a threat to moneyed interests pushing a different
agenda, otherwise we'd have seen XOs on Tony the Tiger cereal
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
...
RE Bucky Fuller:
Is anybody working on getting this material online and inviting the
world to crawl it and create new stories? I know some people in
Science Commons who would like to talk to you about such a thing.
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Gregor Lingl gregor.li...@aon.at wrote:
kirby urner schrieb
Brilliant work Gregor, ran yours just now (I have 2.5, 2.6 and 3.0 all
installed on Ubuntu Dell Jackalope laptop, WinXP KTU3
In a mathy approach to Python, it makes sense to go:
a) welcome to the shell, (print(Hello World!) etc.
b) this is a tool bench (for adults, cycle shop talk (more below))
c) import math
The reasoning is this: we're in a POSIX or unixy context and want to
get across the many tools each doing one
as well, knowing Ron has a lot more where that came from (I'm suppose
to download a half-gig PDF next time in Pauling House for a bored er
board meeting).
Kirby
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From: kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: Arg names
So does the new turtle canvas save to a PNG, using PIL maybe, or do we
still need to hack that?
I think wxPython's canvas has PIL output, but it's been awhile. Robin
Dunn's work was a topic with Synovate for a thread, me bungling the
answer about EMF files, Patrick getting it right (he's the
The second conversation is at IAEP
(http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-May/005466.html and
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-May/005484.html), about
the value of similarities over differences as a rare, remarkable
cultural accompishment:
I've been enjoying learning something of the internal organs involved
in British education, thanks to working with Dr. Ian Benson on various
proposals before the PSF regarding some math through programming
initiatives (actually, just the one proposal at the moment, dubbed
NiceTime [tm], a kind of
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:46 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been enjoying learning something of the internal organs involved
in British education, thanks to working with Dr. Ian Benson on various
proposals before the PSF regarding some math through programming
initiatives
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Jeff Rush j...@taupro.com wrote:
SNIP
I was thinking of regional events, 3-4 a year, to make them more convenient to
teachers and students who often lack a budget to travel. With a focus on the
use of Python programming in education, both K-12 and
in that language
(among others), although they're welcome to do that of course (we
welcome converts or whatever).
Kirby
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:15 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
Both, per the back cover:
Some students may choose to study AP Computer Science in high school
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:15 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
Both, per the back cover:
Some students may choose to study AP Computer Science in high school,
or major in CS in college. Others may decide to go into math,
science, law, art, social sciences, or humanities
http://www.skylit.com/mathandpython.html
I have desk review copy, think many will appreciate the quasi-seamless
blend of old and gnu world typographies, i.e. sigma and set notation,
with concepts of iterator, types, functions etc.
Reminiscent of 'Concrete Mathematics' though less difficult and
and private industry tracks, e.g. we could use this in place
of Algebra 2.
Kirby
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Andre Roberge andre.robe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:07 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.skylit.com/mathandpython.html
I have desk review
On the Farm: (Python 3 -- 3to2 easy)
for David Beazley, the gratitude, who wanted
something more useful than Fibonacci numbers
See:
http://oubiwann.blogspot.com/2009/04/generators-and-coroutines.html
(my comments appended)
def coroutine(target):
used to decorate generators we plan to
Errata Addenda (standard template):
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:56 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm enjoying the state of the art with this one, am tempted to get the
PDF (there's a mail in coupon). This father son team, Warren and
Carter Sande, explore Python 2.5 in dialog
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
See also the Groklaw archives on the SCO suit and other attempts to
hold back Linux.
Good to see so much lore going by.
Teaching to code in the open (open source code) involves storytelling.
What are our
Yeah and no problem distributing closed Windows binary, self installs,
in fair trade for Uncle Sams (or other currency), in order to earn
enough dough to give back to the wxPython community via Debian
headwaters or whatever.
Many of us have day jobs that in some way leverage the fact that
Windows
PySol is another famous closed source example that's been out there
for years. I forget if bittorrent is open source, even if free, lemme
check...
Speaking of closed source (that'd run on an XO?) provided there's Java runtime:
http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=1921344tstart=0
(
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Scott David Daniels
scott.dani...@acm.org wrote:
SNIP
But here is a learning opportunity as well -- too many students are
used to received wisdom, and assume there is nothing to discover.
To say that Python is in motion, that we have learned from our
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
That's why I am looking for kid-friendly AND large communities of
practice first and foremost for any educational endeavors...
--
Cheers,
MariaD
There's the old chicken versus egg problem when it comes to
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:02 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
That's why I am looking for kid-friendly AND large
That's already handled in Celestia, an open source project and
mentioned in my write-up of the Winterhaven Experiment. We also use
Solaria, links on request.
Kirby
Sorry, Stellarium.
This page on Winterhaven Experiment (2007) mentions both.
Click 'Functions and Generators' at the end for
This page on Winterhaven Experiment (2007) mentions both.
2005.
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Those of use teaching Python in a ~CS vein (= not CS i.e. not teaching
computer scientists), have the advantage of not needing reams of
source code, only minor scaffolding of a rather trivial nature,
wrapping whatever libraries. We're not application developers (yet).
That fork comes later.
So
Laura is reminding that Recognition is easier than Recall.
Recognition: the native speaker is doing the work, the learner is
listening, following, passively concentrating
Recall: the learner is speaking with few cues, blank canvas, has to
pull up everything herself, much harder.
That's from
My sincere thanks to Steve and the PSF for their support and especially to
those (like Kirby) who spoke up on my behalf.
That's because I knew you could handle the stress, whereas most guys
'n dolls (Chicago namespace) would crack in your position (smile).
Should be a fun ride.
If I discover
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:45 PM, David MacQuigg
macqu...@ece.arizona.edu wrote:
Hi Andre,
Nice work. I have two suggestions, and a few minor edits.
On the choice between Python 2 and 3, I would say teach both, but limit the
Python 2 syntax to your specific needs. Most students will see
Gregor, great job with this:
Seven ways to use Python's new turtle module:
http://pycon.blip.tv/file/1947495/
I'm so glad Pycon had its video act so much more together this year.
This is an example of a talk I didn't want to miss, and thanks to
this year's organizers, I'm able to appreciate
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:38 PM, David MacQuigg
macqu...@ece.arizona.edu wrote:
At 11:14 AM 4/14/2009 -0700, kirby urner wrote:
Depends on your own background in programming, and whether you need to do
anything unusual like accelerate a program with a function in C. My guess
is the average
Please feel free to make more suggestions for improvements. And if you
disagree with some of my more subjective statements on the edu-sig page,
please do not hesitate to tell me. And I won't be offended at all if you
point out some grammatical mistakes and the like - my kids do it all the
That's very impressive wxPython app. And your 5 minute video is top notch.
I hope you've shown this to wxPython community directly (we're one
degree of separation on edu-sig).
This is a tremendous asset for them.
And for we Ubuntu users should your migration project prove successful.
If
If distributed as a Python egg or one of those disutil things
(setup.py), then which exact Linux distro should have to matter that
much.
... should *not* have to matter so much, sorry.
Python apps distribute independently of distro mechanisms like RPM,
though if you get it up stream in
This is from before Pycon:
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Heads Up:
PPS is unveiling the new technology configuration, planned for many
classrooms, especially pre high school.
Elements: laptop for teacher, data projector, smart board, clickers,
document
Somewhat apropos:
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2009/03/patterns-in-python.html
I see Fowler getting mentioned a lot in this thread. Below, a couple
more titles:
Jacob: Tests are the programmer's stone, transmuting fear into boredom
(Kent Beck, author of Test Driven Development). Build in
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:20 AM, michel paul mpaul...@gmail.com wrote:
SAGE is awesome. I highly recommend it. Recently I've been looking at it
more intently with the idea of using in math classes.
We've been hoping to get the Sage folks from Seattle to present at
PPUG Portland.
One reason I
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Lloyd Hugh Allen chandraki...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't posted in a while -- forgot to reply-to-edu-sig :)
I replied but to an earlier part of this thread -- I trust our human
readers to make the connections. :)
Kirby
Gmail. No, source is not available. They do accept feature requests at
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=suggestions.cs
Once in a while I see that some feature I wanted made it in.
Laura
Of course the mail software can't help you remember when to change the
subject line.
Seems like you'd have to be able to pick out a list from all the
others, which means persisting a list of lists, which may be more
trouble than it's worth?
You mean if the message is crossposted to multiple lists? Well then, I
just use Reply to All.
Oh I get it. I didn't remember that
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:12 PM, David MacQuigg macqu...@ece.arizona.edu wrote:
At 09:35 AM 4/7/2009 -0400, Gary Pajer wrote:
SNIP
Send me some examples of early versions of your programs, and I'll help make
them into a sequence that will serve as good examples for students. See the
FYI, I was prolific today, some might say prolix.
Partly I'm just wanting to keep my wheelings and dealings in the open,
in the spirit of open source.
So... some lesson plans on math-teach @ Math Forum (Drexel
University), precious little Python really, more about tone, context
and perceptions
may well be). Of course some
people are computer scientists and their Python is about CS. So
much other code isn't like that.
Kirby
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Gary Pajer gary.pa...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:43 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
What
,
suspicious of traits, scared of Zope. Lots of small modules, using
__init__.py for package management (ever do that?).
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Gary Pajer gary.pa...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:34 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey excellent questions Gary, expect
Excellente! kind sir.
I don't know about Python, but there are lazy evaluation languages
with streams that can handle something like
isprime=: {n.0 in [2:floor(sqrt(n))] | n}
isprime each [2:_]/[2:_]
I'm wanting to say Haskell but that's just talking through my hat.
Once you get it down to
this: the language would fall
under the control of the Great Lambda Kings (a small tribe to our
north, spends all its time extending emacs).
Ya gotta love 'em!
Kirby
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:27 AM, John Posner jjpos...@snet.net wrote:
kirby urner wrote:
Excellente! kind sir.
Here's a Python solution
One positive aspect of Pycon is I get to meet a lot of world savvy
people with skills outside of my skill set. We also get to exchange
ideas about economic matters.
One electrifying email from ISEPP, my home office for the conference,
told me of plans to close our flagship charter where Edubuntu
I'm all for wikis, more mutable, less a bottleneck. They sometimes
become sprawling (and that's not a bad thing necessarily). A
wonderful tool, thank you Ward Cunningham.
And because edu-sig the page (about 8.5 x 11 or so, if printed?) is so
concise and to the point, we've got the main Wiki we
Here's some of my thinking re the edu-sig page, which I managed up to
the time python.org converted from cvs to svn.
For those not at Pycon, a core theme was a plan to shift the tectonic
plate (platform) yet again, to either bzr or hg. Perhaps the decision
has been made by now, as Guido was
I'm interested in this. Good luck with that reservation.
FYI I blogged some of our BOF from last night, admittedly with various
personal biases (it's a blog post, not the New York Times, which is
completely unbiased as we all know (snicker)):
If others have blogged accounts or pages they'd like
Hey Jeff, is this with reference to dinner this Saturday evening?
This was me replying in the affirmative earlier:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2009-March/009198.html
I'm heading downtown to catch the Buckminster Fuller exhibit at Museum
of Contemporary Art, maybe with Steve Holden,
Ian Benson and I confirm planning to attend.
Kirby
2009/3/26 Andrew Harrington ahar...@luc.edu:
Pycon attenders,
Remember our dinner at 6:45PM Friday night! If you have not already let me
know you are coming, email me and/or make an entry on the BoF page
I'm in 'Learning and Teaching Python Programming: The Crunchy Way' by
Dr. Andre Roberge.
This would be the Python for Educators track, only informally
defined (as a namespace?) at Pycon. There's a BOF later.
He's claiming to be an imposter (we don't believe him) because he
isn't teaching
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:26 PM, David MacQuigg
macqu...@ece.arizona.edu wrote:
SNIP
So Croquant is like a delivery tool, where the lesson plans
accumulate. PyWhip is similar but more static (making the content
Wiki based is likely to promote organic growth).
Not quite sure what you mean
As Andre remarked in his talk, PyWhip is still quite new, just
appeared in the last couple months. I'm glad we're getting more of a
vision statement here from David, as that'll help any one of us
promote the site accurately. My goal is to sustain a high degree of
realism.
Crunchy, to me, seems
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