S'been some time since I reintroduced myself on edu-sig, which remains an important stash in my "lexiverse" e.g. I have quite a few links into it (from blogs etc.), pointing back to old discussions and debates, collections of links (e.g. by Wes Turner) and so on.
In contrast, one of my other main stashes of similar postings was at Math Forum, math-teach (the publicly archived listserv) in particular, and that is no more. Math Forum started at Swarthmore College (PA) then was acquired by Drexel (Philadelphia) and I believe is today managed by the NCTM (the K-12 math teacher association). mathforum.org All those discussion groups got wiped (even the archives were removed). All of which is to say, I'm glad for the relative longevity of Python.org sig archives in general. At the height of my influence at Math Forum, we had a whole page on Quadrays, one of those esoteric / obscure topics I like to use Python for. https://flic.kr/p/KjMqQP (screenshot) Here's a Table of Contents for my most recent Github repo. The entire 4dsolutions.net repo specializes in curriculum development. https://github.com/4dsolutions/m4w/blob/main/M4WTOC.ipynb On the ground, I'm often field testing the materials, through different teaching roles e.g. O'Reilly as a full time Python teacher; adult Python for Californians with jobs in IT (Saisaft's demographic); Coding with Kids (before and through start of pandemic); Sunshine Elite Education (accelerated private school accredited to teach Oregonians); Clarusway (I taught data analysis and visualization courses for them, adding to their pre-existing curriculum). I'm a veteran of many Pycons and a few EuroPythons (Gothenburg, Vilnius), overlapping a lot with Steve Holden, a former PSF director and chairman nowadays in the UK but at one time a denizen of Portland, my home town and center of open source activities, including O'Reilly's OSCON and OS Bridge. Here on edu-sig, a bunch of us were active in creating a Python in Schools or Python in Education track with its own events during Pycons. Those were fun (the ones I got to). One of my early roles in the Math Wars (debates about maths curriculum) was to push for laptops and more Python use in the schools. That happened, as we turned out to be a large army, boosted by the affordability of free open source software. I came from a full time math teaching background (geometry thru calc at a Catholic academy) from Princeton, philosophy focus, before that (Class of 1980). I'm a big fan of using other-than-floating-point numbers ala Mathematica, when teaching high school math topics using Python. A lot of my content is spatially geometric (a theme going back in this archive, in discussions with one Arthur Siegal especially, https://pygeo.sourceforge.net ). I'm still blogging a lot, doing YouTubes and so on, looking forward to 2024. The public archive I post the most to these days, hosted by a math PhD in Lithuania, is connected through the Github repo. https://github.com/4dsolutions/m4w/blob/main/m4w_hmwk_oct22_2023.ipynb Something fun: https://econgoat.ai/en Kirby Urner 4dsolutions.net usa.or.pdx (Portland)
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