Mailman 3 July 2009 - Edu-sig

xturtle online via processing.js !?
by Jurgis Pralgauskis Sept. 27, 2012

Sept. 27, 2012

Hi, I am struggling around with interactive online py tutorials with https://launchpad.net/projects/intro-to-code (ith might become securely sandboxed soon, as pypy made it possible http://blog.sandbox.lt/en/WSGI%20and%20PyPy%20sandbox :) but one more thing is I'd like to let access xturtle functionality online - one possible way could be triggering tkinter to save its canvas to ps, and then convert them with imagemagic and show via web (animated gif or static) - but if pyjamas can render … [View More]

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turtle in education
by roberto Dec. 23, 2009

Dec. 23, 2009

hello, i am looking for materials, experiences etc. about using turtle module in math, physics and related for middle or high school students i realized a lot of work is going on but is there any place where all or part of this material is gathered ? i am going through the talk of Gregor Lingl at PyCon; if you're aware of anything else just tell me thank you very much -- roberto

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Crunchy and Sphinx?
by Jeff Elkner Oct. 5, 2009

Oct. 5, 2009

Hi André! I've spent the last month converting python educational materials from lore to sphinx. For the results, see: http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e and http://www.openbookproject.net/pybiblio/gasp/course The only missing feature at this point (sphinx rocks!) is support for crunchy. Any thoughts on that? I didn't see any reference to reStructuredText or Sphinx on the crunchy site. Thanks! jeff elkenr

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poking some dying logs...
by kirby urner Oct. 5, 2009

Oct. 5, 2009

I'd like to make another plug for including this title on the edu-sig home page: http://www.skylit.com/mathandpython.html Ian thought it was too much a hybrid of CS and math, not an elegant amalgamation, though I don't have has remarks in front of me at the moment. Steve was gonna get back to us. Andre thought he might work it onto the page... That was all months ago by now, so it make sense to raise the issue again, as the title does break new ground in some ways, has claim to being a … [View More]

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Pycon organizers is now talking about poster sessions
by Laura Creighton July 31, 2009

July 31, 2009

I think it would help if an actual teacher got involved before they decide what teachers want without consultation ... Laura ps -- unfortunately you have to subscribe to read the archive. I have no idea why. http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-organizers

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Re: [Edu-sig] Pycon organizers is now talking about poster sessions
by Laura Creighton July 31, 2009

July 31, 2009

In a message of Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:52:26 +0200, Gregor Lingl writes: > > >Laura Creighton schrieb: >> I think it would help if an actual teacher got involved before they >> decide what teachers want without consultation ... >> >> Laura >> >> >Hmmm, don't know what to do with this. Seems to be a reply to some postin >g. >Ok, I'm a teacher, but I definitely do not belong to the circle of >pycon-organizers ... > >I think it would … [View More]

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Learning to Program... in French!
by Jason Briggs July 27, 2009

July 27, 2009

Hi All I've been lurking for a while now, without much of interest to report, but just wanted to let the group know that the first non-English version of my e-book (Snake Wrangling for Kids) has been released. It's version 0.0.1, but looking good (in my opinion, anyway). Downloadable from the project page: http://code.google.com/p/swfk-fr. Awesome effort from Michel to get this first version completed. Regards Jason

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Python 3.0 Textbook and Labs
by Mark Goadrich July 27, 2009

July 27, 2009

Last year in my CS1 course where I teach Python, I used a modified version of Allen Downey's "How to Think Like a (Python) Programmer" open source text. I restructured and edited the text to fit my pedagogical needs, and it was well received by my students (especially the "free PDF textbook" part). This summer I have converted the text and examples to be in line with the Python 3.0 changes, and thought other people on this list might be interested. I've tried to be thorough, but I'm sure I've … [View More]

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Young Programmers Video Podcast
by Dave Briccetti July 24, 2009

July 24, 2009

Hi. Some of you may be interested in a new video podcast for young programmers learning Python, Scratch and Alice. http://young-programmers.blogspot.com/ Should it be added here? http://www.python.org/doc/av/ I couldn't find any contact info. Dave Briccetti (I posted this a couple days ago, and don’t see it in the archives, so perhaps it was silently discarded since I wasn’t subscribed to the list.)

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Re: [Edu-sig] turtle in education
by Daniel Ajoy July 23, 2009

July 23, 2009

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:00:02 -0500, <edu-sig-request(a)python.org> wrote: > hello, > i am looking for materials, experiences etc. about using turtle module > in math, physics and related for middle or high school students > > i realized a lot of work is going on but is there any place where all > or part of this material is gathered ? > i am going through the talk of Gregor Lingl at PyCon; > > if you're aware of anything else just tell me > > thank you … [View More]

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