On 5 December 2016 at 12:35, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
> wrote:
>> I don't know where you live, but in both of my countries there is a
>> teacher's union to ensure that nobody without an Ed
On 5 December 2016 at 09:15, victor rajewski wrote:
>
> There is currently a big push towards teaching coding and computational
> thinking to school students, but a lack of skilled teachers to actually be
> able to support this, and I don't see any initiatives that will
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
wrote:
> That's not exactly what he said. High school teachers are likely to
> be the product of education schools, and may be highly skilled in
> building PowerPoint presentations, and have some experience
Chris Angelico writes:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:15 AM, victor rajewski wrote:
> > There is currently a big push towards teaching coding and
> > computational thinking to school students, but a lack of skilled
> > teachers to actually be able to support this, and I
victor rajewski writes:
>- I personally find the current error messages quite useful, and
>they have the advantage of being machine-parseable, so that IDEs
>such as PyCharm can add value to them. However, the audience of
>this idea is not me, and probably not you. It is
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:15 AM, victor rajewski wrote:
> There is currently a big push towards teaching coding and computational
> thinking to school students, but a lack of skilled teachers to actually be
> able to support this, and I don't see any initiatives that will
Thanks for all of the thoughtful replies (and for moving to a more useful
subject line).
There is currently a big push towards teaching coding and computational
thinking to school students, but a lack of skilled teachers to actually be
able to support this, and I don't see any initiatives that
On 30 November 2016 at 19:05, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 30 November 2016 at 02:14, Stephen J. Turnbull
> wrote:
>> Wouldn't
>>
>> NameError: Python doesn't recognize the name "log". Perhaps
>> you need to import the "math" module?
>
On 30 November 2016 at 02:14, Stephen J. Turnbull
wrote:
> How about:
>
> class Blog:
> pass
>
> blog = get_blog_for_date(someday)
>
> logn = log(blog.size)
>
> NameError: Python doesn't recognize the function "log". Did you
> mean
There are a couple of project that tried to improved heuristic on some
error messages.
Two I can think off are:
https://github.com/SylvainDe/DidYouMean-Python
and
https://github.com/dutc/didyoumean
I think that better error messages could be implemented only in the
repl, and/or by
Mariatta Wijaya writes:
> > NameError: name 'length' is not defined
>
> > A better message might be:
>
> > Python doesn't recognise the function "length". Did you mean
> > len?'
This particular change would be useful to a beginning Python
programmer. I've made that error often enough
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