At 05:08 PM 02/14/2000 -0500, you wrote:
Kirby - Are you using Python in a classroom situation? How do you handle student access to a computer? Here in my county, the schools tend to have a computer lab for the CS classes, and a generic lab for math/science. The teachers have to sign up for computer lab time. It's great if the students have the computer immediately available.
My focus is teachers. I recently used an InFocus projector (courtesy of the State of Oregon) to screen content directly from a computer, while circulating copies of my printed materials. Some of our districts have computers in the math class, including projectors (Winterhaven in Brooklyn is an example).
In the school I'm at now, we're talking about how to get other departments more involved with programming...Sounds like what you're doing with Python. Are you doing it on your own, or are other teachers getting involved? Randy
Other teachers are getting involved. But I have a head start. It's nothing new to have programming mixed with math content. Many math text books (e.g. McGraw-Hill) have included BASIC or Logo -- these were not for CS courses in particular, although I'm sure they could have been used that way (I don't know in this case, as I was in McGraw-Hill, not in the classroom -- although I do have some years of classroom experience). Kirby