Well, I set up 25 PCs in my classroom on a gigabit LAN. Each PC is
running Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 - so, yes they have gnome and yes they
have a GUI browser (Firefox).
I took one of these PCs and called it the "server/teacher station."
On this PC I added vsftp to share files with my students and
openssh so they can login to my PC as a server to save their work.
I call my PC the "teacher station" because I use it with a PC
Projector and a Slate (bluetooth remote mouse) mimicking a
SmartBoard setup to demo code and give notes and even show some
educational YouTube! I recently added python and IDLE to this server:
apt-get install python
apt-get install idle
We tried IDLE but prefer python scripts. So, I have my students
login to the server via ssh from their "student stations" and write
python scripts like hello.py which they chmod to make executable
chmod 755 hello.py
which works fine if the first line in the script is
#!/usr/bin/python
I tried to import turtle in a script using this environment but
turtle was not found.
You say VPython works well with IDLE? I was hoping to add VPython,
GASP or turtle graphics to my scripts.
What do you think?
TIA,
A. Jorge Garcia
Applied Math and CompSci
http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009