I've been experimenting with teaching two classes in parallel: (1) for middle and high schoolers, a Pythonic Math class @ PSU: http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2007/04/class-notes-session-one.html (2) for adults, some with coding experience but none with much Python so far: http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2007/04/wanderers-2007417.html You'll see in the follow-up section of link (2) above that I'm adding links for Classes 0-3 as time goes on. So if you're curious, pop Class 0 and read about last night's first formal meeting of our 4-session Python for Wanderers (it's a legal py file, but mostly comments in green). Wanderers meet in the boyhood home of 2x Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, walking distance from my house in the Hawthorne District of Portland. The name Wanderers comes from this quote: "Science would be ruined if it were to withdraw entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are wanderers-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines." -- Benoit Mandelbrot http://wwwanderers.org/ My students last night included: Allen Taylor, author of 'SQL for Dummies' Glenn Stockton, former NSA cryptanalyst, Global Matrix [tm] avatar Bill Sheppard, electronics engineer, inventor of not-a-theramin Don Wardwell, boat captain, retired Mt Hood Community College faculty David Tver, wandering mathematician I'm hoping Derek (friend and neighbor) makes some of the next ones. I'm using a non-linear approach that shouldn't overly penalize those who can't make all four sessions. I'm wondering if I might recruit Kevin Altis and/or Robin Dunn to do a wxPython/HyperCard demo for the grand finale. Kirby