Kirby Urner <urner@alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:

A lot of the background reading is on the web pages linked from the URL below, which contains mostly Python source code.

Actually, not any more -- I've just upgraded this page (*) to contain a better narrative:code ratio. It's actually quite readable now, with most of the source code kept in the back, for those wanting to read it (and/or copy/execute it). This is one of several web pages from the Oregon Curriculum Network, developed in part to assist homeschoolers with math-related curriculum. But I'm not exclusively so focussed (e.g. my own daughter goes to a public school, and I'm thinking of her and her peers just as much -- went over there recently to install Python for the iMac). The Python aspect wasn't part of this site at the outset -- although using *some* computer language always was. I came to Python late in my game, and quickly recognized it for having the key features I was looking for in a teaching language, chiefly a command line interface (CLI) and an easy way of implementing many of the object-oriented programming concepts (OO). Kirby * http://www.inetarena.com/~pdx4d/ocn/clubhouse.html