<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Haven't had much Cc input so far, but this one is definitely worth following up on. Thanks!<div><br></div><div>regards</div><div> Steve</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Aug 4, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Eric Snow wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Steve Holden <<a href="mailto:steve@holdenweb.com">steve@holdenweb.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">[Ccs appreciated]<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">After some three years labor I (@holdenweb) at last find myself approaching<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the completion of the Python Certificate Series with O'Reilly School of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Technology (@OReillySchool).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">At OSCON last week the team fell to talking about the final assignment<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(although the Certificate is not a certification, students only progress by<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">answering real quiz questions, not the usual multiple-choice task). Success<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">also requires that they complete a project at the end of each (of the ~60)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">lesson(s).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">We would ideally like the last project to to be something that demonstrates<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">at least some minimal involvement with the Python community. Something like<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"get a Python answer upvoted on StackOverflow", for example, or getting a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">question answered on c.l.p. At the same time it shouldn't be anything that<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">places a burden on the community (otherwise the hundredth student would be<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">abused and the thousandth murdered).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">So I wondered if anyone had any good ideas.<br></blockquote><br>While not as "community" as the mailing lists, perhaps they could post<br>a recipe to the activestate.<br><br>-eric<br><br><blockquote type="cite">regards<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Steve<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Steve Holden<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:steve@holdenweb.com">steve@holdenweb.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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