Re: [Edu-sig] From europython -- should we do Python for kids?

2006-03-23 Thread kirby urner
My initial take is it's a good idea to do actual Python trainings at various levels, especially for participants feeling somewhat peripheral to the main conference tracks, owing to a language barrier of some kind. The pre OSCON workshops (before the actual start of the conference) accomplish a

Re: [Edu-sig] From europython -- should we do Python for kids?

2006-03-23 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, I subscribed to follow the discussions here for some time. It was me, who asked for informations about python for kids events at the europython. Am 23.03.2006 um 07:05 schrieb Laura Creighton: So I want to open this up for discussion. What do we want to accomplish and how? I can not

[Edu-sig] From europython -- should we do Python for kids?

2006-03-22 Thread Laura Creighton
I think doing this would be fun. Since the CFP hasn't gone out yet, we haven't really organised ourselves all that well yet. But I think that Introductory Python is a good idea. I wonder if a separate Python-for-the-kids section would be good as well, and how many kids we could get to

Re: [Edu-sig] From europython -- should we do Python for kids?

2006-03-22 Thread Gregor Lingl
Laura Creighton schrieb: I think doing this would be fun. Since the CFP hasn't gone out yet, we haven't really organised ourselves all that well yet. But I think that Introductory Python is a good idea. I wonder if a separate Python-for-the-kids section would be good as well, and how

Re: [Edu-sig] From europython -- should we do Python for kids?

2006-03-22 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:17:42 +0100, Gregor Lingl writes: Laura Creighton schrieb: I think doing this would be fun. Since the CFP hasn't gone out yet, we haven't really organised ourselves all that well yet. But I think that Introductory Python is a good idea. I wonder if a