On Mon, 31 Jul, 2006 at 11:04PM +0100, Michael spake thus:
Hi James,
I'd like to second the request to see what your syllabus looks like. This is partly because whilst I work in BBC R&D, I'm currently looking to build a collaboration with Manchester University (I went to university there, and by chance they're doing work that meshes with my research area), and there's been questions of Python's accessibility.
If you're willing to share more details about your course, lesson plan and notes, I'm sure there's other places that would be really interested...
Sorry. I did try, and messed it up. I assumed the list did reply-to munging, stupidly, when it doesn't. So, the parent post got a private reply which I'm copy/pasting here, with some more info. %These first two lectures use the turtle from the interpreter. We %start setting the scene for later ideas, such as functions and loops, %by pointing out the limitations of typing out all of the commands to %draw a spiral, say. \item [Lecture 1] Getting Started. \item [Lecture 2] Python Basics. \item [Lecture 3] Boolean Algebra. \item [Lecture 4] Choice. \item [Lectures 5-6] Repetition: Recursion. %By now, they're drawing koch and dragon curves \item [Lecture 7] Repetition: Iteration. \item [Lecture 8] State. \item [Lectures 9-10] Compound Types. \item [Lecture 11-12] Searching and Sorting. %They have seen functions already, but they were introduced without %fuss, so they never felt threatened by them. Now they hear a lot more \item [Lecture 13-14] Functions and Modules. \item [Lecture 15] Input / Output. \item [Lectures 16-18] Object Oriented Python. \item [Lectures 19-20] Python Extensions. % And by now, they're writing games. Frogger, space invaders, % allsorts. The number of students that have become engrossed with % programming at this point is unheard of at Coventry. Whole clusters % of people appreciating each others' code. %% Plus two extra lectures on language transfer Sorry it's in LaTeX markup, but it made it clear where comments end and lecture topics begin.
Best Regards (and congrats on the review!)
Thanks! James
Michael.
On Monday 31 July 2006 13:42, james@dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
Hi all.
This last academic year, we used Python for the first time in our introductory programming modules.
This is in place of Java (horrible first language, IMNSHO).
It went VERY well. We've just had our external examiner's report and I got so excited, I blogged it and then ran here to yell about it.
http://blog.dis-dot-dat.net/2006/07/we-officially-rock.html
:)
James
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Only somewhat apropos, I did two semesters with 8th graders (13-14ish) last year. A lot of the details are filed back in this archive, but here's some web based overview: http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/winterhaven/ More of the meat: http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/winterhaven/section3.html The class was a blast and I've been invited back. I'm also in the Saturday Academy catalog for this fall, teaching Pythonic mathematics. Kirby
James, Thanks again for sharing your work. I plan to do the same and it is a struggle! It sounds like you are using a Python + Logo setup. Is it PyLogo? Kevin On 7/31/06, james@dis-dot-dat.net <james@dis-dot-dat.net> wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul, 2006 at 11:04PM +0100, Michael spake thus:
Hi James,
I'd like to second the request to see what your syllabus looks like. This is partly because whilst I work in BBC R&D, I'm currently looking to build a collaboration with Manchester University (I went to university there, and by chance they're doing work that meshes with my research area), and there's been questions of Python's accessibility.
If you're willing to share more details about your course, lesson plan and notes, I'm sure there's other places that would be really interested...
Sorry. I did try, and messed it up. I assumed the list did reply-to munging, stupidly, when it doesn't. So, the parent post got a private reply which I'm copy/pasting here, with some more info.
%These first two lectures use the turtle from the interpreter. We %start setting the scene for later ideas, such as functions and loops, %by pointing out the limitations of typing out all of the commands to %draw a spiral, say.
\item [Lecture 1] Getting Started. \item [Lecture 2] Python Basics. \item [Lecture 3] Boolean Algebra. \item [Lecture 4] Choice. \item [Lectures 5-6] Repetition: Recursion.
%By now, they're drawing koch and dragon curves
\item [Lecture 7] Repetition: Iteration. \item [Lecture 8] State. \item [Lectures 9-10] Compound Types. \item [Lecture 11-12] Searching and Sorting.
%They have seen functions already, but they were introduced without %fuss, so they never felt threatened by them. Now they hear a lot more
\item [Lecture 13-14] Functions and Modules. \item [Lecture 15] Input / Output. \item [Lectures 16-18] Object Oriented Python. \item [Lectures 19-20] Python Extensions.
% And by now, they're writing games. Frogger, space invaders, % allsorts. The number of students that have become engrossed with % programming at this point is unheard of at Coventry. Whole clusters % of people appreciating each others' code.
%% Plus two extra lectures on language transfer
Sorry it's in LaTeX markup, but it made it clear where comments end and lecture topics begin.
Best Regards (and congrats on the review!)
Thanks!
James
Michael.
On Monday 31 July 2006 13:42, james@dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
Hi all.
This last academic year, we used Python for the first time in our introductory programming modules.
This is in place of Java (horrible first language, IMNSHO).
It went VERY well. We've just had our external examiner's report and I got so excited, I blogged it and then ran here to yell about it.
http://blog.dis-dot-dat.net/2006/07/we-officially-rock.html
:)
James
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