Mailman 3 July 2009 - Edu-sig

xturtle online via processing.js !?
by Jurgis Pralgauskis 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

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 GUI for js (http://www.google.lt/search?&q=pyjamas+python ), mayby there is a way to **translate turtle commands to processing.js analogues** http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/ would it be difficult -- how do you think? -- Jurgis Pralgauskis tel: 8-616 77613; jabber: jurgis(a)akl.lt; skype: dz0rdzas; Don't worry, be happy and make things better ;) http://sagemath.visiems.lt

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turtle in education
by roberto 23 Dec '09

23 Dec '09

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 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

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 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

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 math teaching book, yet uses a computer language (one most of us know). 'Concrete Mathematics' and 'The Art of Computer Programming' are both math books of course, amenable to a "through programming" approach. Jsoftware folks implemented the former in J, whereas the latter is in MMX already. Another hot button issue in Portland these days is whether families have the right to demand a PDF version of any assigned textbook, versus a hardcopy edition. We have lots of tree huggers around here, worried about "green" and unsustainability. To quote one of my colleagues (from her blog): "We need the text book companies to print thousands of copies of new textbooks every year, not so the authors can make money, though they make a little, but so the companies can make money... Do some central planning, and if the government can't do that without going through corporations, then it is time to [do it ourselves]". Anyway, just wanted to re-raise that as well. I mostly do my computer / technical reading on Safari, have no problem with recycling already printed books, have no problem with small press runs. But I can see where truck loads of spanking new 400 page math books, hot off the press, none containing any computer programming to speak of, let alone Mites, Sytes or Kites (honeycomb stuff, important to gnu-bees), would provoke a crisis in conscience for our more ethical. This is the kind of thing 15 year olds talk about. They're suspicious of adults who can't follow their logic (about saving trees), undermines adult authority to not have a response. So do we all favor an "opt out" option for hard copy textbooks? Say aye? Say nay? Kirby

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Pycon organizers is now talking about poster sessions
by Laura Creighton 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

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 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

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 be helpful if you posted the original to EduSig? > >Best wishes, >Gregor >> ps -- unfortunately you have to subscribe to read the archive. I have >> no idea why. http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-organizers >> _______________________________________________ >> Edu-sig mailing list >> Edu-sig(a)python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig There are lots of notes by now. And that is the unfortunate part, you have to subscribe to read them. Plus the whole list is in an uproar as part of discovering that PyCON lost a bunch of money this year. But since I know some people on this list have strong ideas about how a poster session at pycon should be organised, I thought it was time to put the word out that now is when such things are being discussed. The initial article was mine. I said that I would like PyCON better if there was some way to get a track of 'what have you been doing lately'. The sort of talks that would not get accepted to PyCON because they are not polished enough, or not of interest to a large enough segment of the community. Somebody suggested posters, and the whole topic took off from there. Laura

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Learning to Program... in French!
by Jason Briggs 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

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 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

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 missed some things, and will continue to update the text as the fall semester progresses. The PDF can be found at http://mark.goadrich.com/courses/csc207f09/book/thinkPP.pdf with the LaTeX source files at http://mark.goadrich.com/courses/csc207f09/book/thinkpp3000.tar.gz and my associated labs, approximately one for each chapter http://mark.goadrich.com/courses/csc207f09/#labs Hope you find them useful, Mark -- Mark Goadrich, Ph.D. Broyles Eminent Scholars Chair of Computational Mathematics Assistant Professor of Computer Science Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport, LA http://mark.goadrich.com mgoadric(a)centenary.edu (318) 869-5194

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Young Programmers Video Podcast
by Dave Briccetti 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

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 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

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 very much > -- Materials? http://neoparaiso.com/logo/ejercicios-de-geometria.html Logo books and resources in general. Daniel

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