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ANN: pre-release of RUR-PLE (version 0.7.9.9)
by André Roberge 02 May '05

02 May '05

For the curious amongst you, a new version of RUR-PLE is available. https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125834 RUR-PLE stands for "Roberge's Used Robot - a Python Learning Environment". It is inspired by Guido van Robot (GvR) also available on sourceforge. For those familiar with GvR, I believe that you will find that the current version of RUR-PLE is already more useful in its current form as a teaching/learning environment for Python than the "final" version of GvR. RUR-PLE requires wxPython. The home page for the project is hopelessly out of date with the version released today. The current version includes 25 lessons, covering in various details, the following Python keywords: def, if, else, elif, not, pass, while, from, import, (as), try, except. [Note: the lesson using "from" and "import" included does not work with this version of RUR-PLE; this will be fixed in version 0.8] Release 0.8 will include lessons covering mathematical operators, strings, list, tuples and dict ... and hopefully more. The goal for version 1.0 is to be complete enough to be suitable for introducing Python to young teenagers in a High School Environment as well as containing enough material to be used in a CS1 (and perhaps CS2) University level course. This is a *preview* release, announced only on this list for now. Cheers, André P.S. Any feedback, including criticisms [and suggestions for making it more relevant to the humanities ;-) is welcome.]

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Re: Edu-sig Digest, Vol 22, Issue 1
by Toby Donaldson 01 May '05

01 May '05

Hi, You are welcome to look at --- any use or modify any of the materials --- from our course website for the initial offering at Surrey of the Python-based CMPT 120: http://sweetness.typepad.com/cmpt_120_sfu_surrey_fall2/ Highlights include: - three different sets of instructor notes - a set of weekly programming labs - two sample midterm exams (with solutions) - two sample final exams (with solutions) - as glossary of terms (generated via a Python script): http://sweetness.typepad.com/cmpt_120_sfu_surrey_fall2/files/glossary.html - some vocabulary crossword in the form of interactive Java applets: http://sweetness.typepad.com/cmpt_120_sfu_surrey_fall2/puzzles/index.html This course didn't cover any object-oriented programming. Two comments on your FAQ: - "yield" does not quite give you the full power of continuations, and so anyone who expects that will be disappointed (or relieved, depending upon your attitude and experience with them!). - I would think that if you end up using Python and require that all function arguments be explicitly type-checked, then it might not be the best choice of language. Yes, you *can* do a lot of type-checking with assert, but that quickly lays waste to any claims of Python being "low overhead". Toby >Message: 1 >Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 12:01:53 -0400 >From: "Douglas S. Blank" <dblank(a)brynmawr.edu> >Subject: [Edu-sig] Python for CS101 >To: edu-sig(a)python.org >Message-ID: <4273ABF1.3050506(a)brynmawr.edu> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > >Edu-sig members, > >I am proposing that we move our intro courses at Bryn Mawr College to >Python. Although I have been using Python for a few years, and have >used it in the upper-level courses for teaching robotics, I haven't >taught an intro course with it. > >I am now responding to my colleagues' questions. If you have useful >comments, or if you have questions too, please feel free to add them here: > >http://emergent.brynmawr.edu/emergent/PythonForCS > >or send them to me (or post them here). I hope when this process is >complete, this data will be useful for others ready to make the plunge. > >Thanks for any feedback, > >-Doug > >

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