Re: [Edu-sig] Python testimonial sought...

2013-02-19 Thread Andre Roberge
Thanks for the info Kirby and to Jeff for finding the link. Unfortunately, that was not it. (I did watch the entire video) What I am looking for was something written by a fourth-year University student about a final year project. André On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:05 PM, kirby urner

Re: [Edu-sig] Python testimonial sought...

2013-02-19 Thread kirby urner
Sorry for the false lead. I'll keep my antennae up. Jeff, thanks for posting that link, glad to know that video is still available. Kirby On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Andre Roberge andre.robe...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the info Kirby and to Jeff for finding the link. Unfortunately,

[Edu-sig] Python testimonial sought...

2013-02-18 Thread Andre Roberge
A few years ago (at least 5 I believe) I remember reading an account from two students who had to do a term project in their final CS year. They decided to do it in Python (which they had learned on their own) whereas everyone else was using something like C++ or Java which was taught in their

Re: [Edu-sig] Python testimonial sought...

2013-02-18 Thread kirby urner
Hi Andre -- My clearest memory along those lines was it was a talking head maybe Jeff Elkner himself in that student-made video about the virtues of Python. You may recall the video: there's an old hippie dad, a parody of a student's father. It's a kind of love story, where this girl show this