On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll@ntoll.org> wrote:
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There are lots of ways this analogy could be extended with amusing consequences (just remembering back to when I used to regularly teach teenagers - they would have had a field day with it). :-)
"It's like there's just one loo (but make sure you don't block)."
(Sorry). :-P
N.
Funny you should mention as I'm just reviewing an old presentation where I get into the scatological / demented humor layer endemic at various levels, starting in fairly early childhood. Why not tap into that? "Mad libs" were my point-in-common, i.e. wacky stories with missing user-supplied elements, a way to get into the whole topic of string substitution, important to STEM even if current math standards don't see where it goes. Excepts from the slide show mentioned below: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirbyurner/8373804657/in/photostream/lightbox/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirbyurner/8373804285/in/photostream/lightbox/ What I do in some courses is show how a Python class itself looks like a many-ribbed snake: class Python: def __rib__(self): pass def __rib__(self): pass def __rib__(self): pass def __rib__(self): pass def __rib__(self): pass def __rib__(self): pass (legal but useless except for diagramming purposes i.e. shows the "rib cage"). This begets the view of classes as organisms (perhaps genetically modified) with bowel functions, a metabolism. Hence the need for a self.stomach and snake.eat( ) and snake.poop() methods -- self.stomach a FIFO column. Kirby ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:59 PM Subject: Re: thoughts about your paper To: David B Koski Yeah, I replied. I've done lots of conferences. Sometimes I just have to prepare slides and talk, other times a paper too. For EuroPython (Vilnius, Lithuania) I was asked to do a paper. It was not at all just a script for the slides. Paper: http://4dsolutions.net/presentations/urner_europython_2007.pdf Slides: http://4dsolutions.net/presentations/connectingthedots.pdf Kirby