Mailman 3 April 2014 - Edu-sig

Re: [Edu-sig] RurPLE-NG is nice
by Jurgis Pralgauskis 05 Apr '14

05 Apr '14

Some updates: - separated Variables Watch and Output panes, to be seen simultaneusly - implemented Breakpoints :) - beta style Todo: - let enter arbitrary watch expressions http://ftp.akl.lt/users/jurgis/python/rurple-NG053.png http://ftp.akl.lt/users/jurgis/python/rurple-ng-dz0-SplitLogVars_and_Breakp… for windows one doesn't need to install python separately, just unzip and run :) http://ftp.akl.lt/users/jurgis/python/RURPLE-NG-0.53%20%5bindependent%20exe… ps.: RurPLE-NG uses py3 unicode_literals, with_statement, division, print_function so code is generally py3 compliant. when wxpy will work well with py3 it shouldn't be too hard to port fully... >> >> just wanted to mention, >> that http://dev.lshift.net/paul/rurple/ >> is a very nice and lightweit PLE. >> >> what I like most (compared to RurPLE) are: >> 1) variables watch list (if it had breakpoints, it would rock :)

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New Python MOOC on Coursera with 100% CC-BY Materials and Book
by Charles Severance 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Hi all, I just wanted to let you know about a new Free University of Michigan Python course I am teaching on Coursera called "Programming for Everybody". https://www.coursera.org/course/pythonlearn The idea of the course is not to be a first Computer Science course - but instead to be a "programming literacy" / "computational thinking" aimed at somewhere between middle of high school and freshman in college or adult learners looking for an "on ramp" for learning about technology. The course is based on 100% CC-BY materials available from: http://open.umich.edu/education/si/coursera-programming-everybody/winter2014 We not only provide the slides and sample code uncer CC, but also ready-to-load course exports from Blackboard and Moodle. There is also an open source Skulpt-based auto-grader that is part of the course that I host and make available at no charge as long as I don't run out of resources my University of Michigan-provided servers. The book is a heavily adapted variant of Allen Downey and Jeff Elkner's Think Python book. It is about 80% all new and published as "Python for Informatics". All the electronic copies (including an iBooks version with embedded video tutorials) are free and the printed textbook is $8.99 on Amazon. http://www.pythonlearn.com/book.php I am hoping to use the high-profile of Coursera to attract a wide range of students and teachers from around the world to get a basic introduction to programming in Python in a way that they can perhaps take their skills and materials back and teach them locally. I am hoping to create a learning community that can hep increase the number of high school and community college teachers who can competently teach a Python class. I would hope that you might share this with various high school and college teachers that you think might be interested in participating in the course. I owe thanks to lots of folks in the Python Edu community who did early work that I have built upon like Jeff, Allen, and Brad Miller (Skulpt). Let me know if you have any questions or comments. Charles Severance University of Michigan School of Information www.dr-chuck.com

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Easy Web Environment to post pupils Python Creations
by Philip Bagge 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Dear Colleagues, My Y6 pupils (10-11 year olds) have been creating some simple text based linear adventures using Python. Does anyone know of a way we can play their adventures online? They are not very complicated. You can see the planning here. https://sites.google.com/site/pythoncodecouk/python-adventure Also as a new person to your forum does anyone know of an easy way to search you archives just in case someone has already answered this question. Thanks in advance for any help Phil Bagge -- Primary ICT Advanced Skills Teacher HCC Teacher & IT Manager http://code-it.co.uk

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