Mailman 3 October 2002 - Edu-sig

A larger gold balance!
by Nobody 29 Oct '02

29 Oct '02

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ANN: SuM - Von Stiften und Maeusen (german)
by Ingo Linkweiler 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

SuM - Von Stiften und Mäusen DESCRIPTION: ------------ German only: About pens and mice, a conversion of the well-known didactical learning software to Python. BESCHREIBUNG: ------------- Eine Umsetzung der bekannten didaktischen Lernsoftware nach Python. Einführung in die Grundlagen der objektorientierten Programmierung. Anhand fertiger Klassen "Stift", "Maus", "Bildschirm" u.a. kann in dieser Lernumgebung der Einstieg in die objektorientierte Softwareentwicklung mit einfacher Computergrafik vermittelt werden. VERSION: -------- 1.0 erste öffentliche Version URL: ---- http://www.ingo-linkweiler.de/diplom/

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ANN: PyNassi - a structure chart editor
by Ingo Linkweiler 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

PyNassi - A program structure chart editor DESCRIPTION: ------------ (DEUTSCH siehe unten) PyNassi 1.2 (24.10.02) A program structure chart editor and a debugger written with and for Python. PyNassi allows the interactive design of "Nassi Shneiderman" structure charts and can generate Python source code. Program structure charts permit an easily understandable diagram of functions and programs. PyNassi can be used for education for the representation and production of programs as well as an introduction to the basics of programming techniques in the form of program structure charts. VERSION: -------- 1.2 (first public release) CHANGES: -------- v1.2: - english and german language - new setup dialog - printing URL: ---- http://www.ingo-linkweiler.de/diplom/ *** BESCHREIBUNG: ------------- Ein Struktogramm-Editor und Debugger in Python. PyNassi ermöglicht die Erstellung von Python-Scripten in Form von Nassi-Shneiderman-Struktogrammen. Struktogramme erlauben eine leicht verständliche, grafische Darstellung von Funktionen und Programmen. Besonders im Bereich der Ausbildung zur Einführung in die Grundlagen der Programmiertechnik bietet sich die Darstellung und Erstellung von Programmen in Form von Struktogrammen an. VERSION: -------- 1.2 erste öffentliche Version NEUERUNGEN: ----------- v.1.2: Mehrsprachig Druckfunktion Setupdialog URL: ---- http://www.ingo-linkweiler.de/diplom/

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question
by cam trenor 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

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re: Slighly OT: O'Reilly article [other resources for newbies?]
by Danny Yoo 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

> Everybody, please review that page -- are there any missing resources? > Beginners books that I should list? Hi Guido, Would it be good to put Useless Python on the Newbies page too? http://uselesspython.com

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RE: [Edu-sig] Electronic assignment submission?
by Seabrook, Richard 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

-----Original Message----- From: Louis Bertrand To: edu-sig(a)python.org Sent: 10/21/02 8:55 AM Subject: [Edu-sig] Electronic assignment submission? Not necessarily a Python question (unless the solution is implemented in Python). I'm looking for a system to hand in programming assignments electronically, and return them to the students (IMHO, a trickier problem). Web, email or other, ideally running on a freenix server (BSD). It would be fun to write my own, and I've been looking at pulling mail attachments via IMAP and the MIME tools, or some sort of Web script. But if it's already out there... ======================================================= For just turning them in and you sending back comments, regular email seems best -- as long as they include the program text in the body of the message -- processing attachments usually requires extra steps. If you want to test the program however, the message should arrive at the machine where you can run the test -- and you need to be able to get the program out in runnable form in as few steps as possible. With only a few programs coming in it doesn't much matter how you set things up, but when you have 50-60 coming in they need to be in the right place and easy to process. I use email for UNIX shell scripts and receive them on a Linux server where I can save them to a special directory, remove the header and execute them with a shell. Dick S.

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Electronic assignment submission?
by Louis Bertrand 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

Not necessarily a Python question (unless the solution is implemented in Python). I'm looking for a system to hand in programming assignments electronically, and return them to the students (IMHO, a trickier problem). Web, email or other, ideally running on a freenix server (BSD). It would be fun to write my own, and I've been looking at pulling mail attachments via IMAP and the MIME tools, or some sort of Web script. But if it's already out there... Any leads? Thanks --Louis

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Slightly OT: O'Reilly article
by Patrick K. O'Brien 19 Oct '02

19 Oct '02

This might be slightly off-topic, but considering the things Jason sends our way (just kidding!), I figured "what the heck". Anyway, O'Reilly just published an article of mine on Beginning Python for Bioinformatics. While the target audience is the biology community, I think the content is a pretty good introduction to Python in general. And, who knows, you might find the biology stuff interesting as well. So, here is a link to the article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2002/10/17/biopython.html -- Patrick K. O'Brien Orbtech http://www.orbtech.com/web/pobrien ----------------------------------------------- "Your source for Python programming expertise." -----------------------------------------------

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Re: Tutorials => was {Re: [Edu-sig] Slightly OT: O'Reilly article}
by Jason Cunliffe 19 Oct '02

19 Oct '02

> Here's a funny one: > > http://uselesspython.com/JoeUselessWritesAProgram.html See also the varied list of tutorials: http://uselesspython.com/tutorials.html which includes: Non-Programmers Tutorial For Python by Josh Cogliati http://www.honors.montana.edu/~jjc/easytut/easytut/easytut.html ./Jason

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Fwd: Which way did the chicken cross the road?
by Jason Cunliffe 15 Oct '02

15 Oct '02

A nice story from a discussion elsewhere on XML... [Assumptions, formatting, parsing components and their designers] Joel Neely wrote: > EWD told a wonderful story about giving an individualized test where > the student is presented with a problem and is expected to "think > aloud" while designing a solution on the board in the professor's > presence. The problem he described involves achieving a specified > condition in a single pass across a one-dimensional array, where the > obvious solution would sweep back-and-forth multiple times. He had > been accustomed (over many uses of this problem) to seeing the > students end up with some processing upon elements in "increasing" > (left-to-right) positional order. > > He was surprised by a student from Israel, who developed an equally > valid solution which swept the array in *decreasing* (right-to-left) > positional order. He wondered how much growing up reading r-to-l > Hebrew instead of a l-to-r European language influenced the way the > student conceptualized the problem. > > Makes one wonder, doesn't it?! ./Jason

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