Well, I (and at least one other person on this list) will be attending the education sig at PyCon, and would be happy to hear from you about this. <br><br>It is definitely replacing the VB stuff that we are after. It is a pedagogical disaster to teach kids that, and any C/Java variant is hardly better. Dijkstra is rolling in his grave.
<br><br>We can cross the Java bridge at a later date.<br><br>mt<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Cosmin Stejerean</b> <<a href="mailto:cstejerean@gmail.com">cstejerean@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'd be surprised if any do. Most high schools that teach Computer<br>
Science tend to have an AP Computer Science course, which has to be in<br>Java, and potentially a regular CS course which is meant to attract a<br>larger crowd and as such was traditionally restricted to VB (I would<br>get C# or
<a href="http://VB.NET">VB.NET</a> would also be good candidates) so that folks can<br>easily throw together pretty GUIs and write Tic-Tac-Toe.<br><br>I think one of the challenges of teaching CS courses in high school to
<br>folks that don't want to pursue CS as a major is making the course<br>interesting. With a RAD tool like VB is easy for everyone to throw<br>together a nice app that can do something they like. With something<br>like Python that might be harder to do (Tkinter or WxPython
<br>anyone???).<br><br>Although I don't teach Python, I have a couple of<br>suggestions/suggestions for Python course at a high school level that<br>I'd like to share.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Cosmin Stejerean<br><br>
On 1/31/07, DiPierro, Massimo <<a href="mailto:MDiPierro@cti.depaul.edu">MDiPierro@cti.depaul.edu</a>> wrote:<br>> I teach python at university level (ipd362 ad DePaul Institute for Professional Development).<br>
> I would be happy to talk to him.<br>><br>> Massimo<br>><br>> Massimo Di Pierro<br>> CTI DePaul University, 243 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60604<br>> Tel. +1-312-362-5173, Fax. +1-312-362-6116<br>> Email:
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</a><br>><br>> ________________________________<br>><br>> From: <a href="mailto:chicago-bounces@python.org">chicago-bounces@python.org</a> on behalf of Michael Tobis<br>> Sent: Wed 1/31/2007 9:28 AM<br>> To: The Chicago Python Users Group
<br>> Subject: [Chicago] Python in local school systems?<br>><br>><br>> Jeff Elkner passed on a request from a Naperville teacher to put her in contact with anyone teaching Python as a formal course at the high school level.
<br>><br>> If anyone knows of anything like this currently happening in the Chicago Metro area or nearby, please let me know and I'll pass it along.<br>><br>> mt<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________
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