kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:

That should be enough to get me going. I'll be back soon with that URL. It'll be a work in progress and I'll be open to feedback (positive, negative, neutral, indifferent).

Kirby

One small suggestion. Instead of this: ''' Examples of data structures are: list [a, b, c] dictionary {a:1, b:2, c:3} string "abc" tuple (a,b,c) ''' I suggest this: ''' Examples of data structures are: [a, b, c] # a list {a:1, b:2, c:3} # a dictionary "abc" # a string (a,b,c) # a tuple ''' This cleanly separates the syntax from the labeling, and reinforces the commenting notation. Looking at the larger picture, I'm feeling that there is a need for an online place to provide for the teaching/learning of python that is specifically structured for high school credit. You may have heard that Michigan is thinking of making the completion of an online course a graduation requirement. If this passes, and other states follow, there might well be demand for such a course, or set of courses. I really like Kirby's penchant for sharing his educational endeavors with us, and the materials that go with them, however, it is all very *specific* to his particular situation. I've been wondering if there isn't some way to foster greater collaboration with what Kirby is doing, while at the same time, engender more such efforts by those of us inclined to do so. For example, one well-regarded, open-source curriculum management system is Moodle (moodle.org) (think Blackboard, or WebCT, only free.) If we set up a moodle site, we could each prototype courses, placing emphasis where each of us felt was appropriate or necessary for our own needs, or the perceived needs of a potential audience. We might then synthesize our efforts somehow and make it available to schools (the horizon gets hazy at this point...) One drawback, in my mind, is that moodle runs on php rather than python, and I wouldn't like the subtle irony of that situation. The obvious python product I suppose is plone (plone.org) but that would have to be heavily customized to make it more like a courseware system than a generic content management system. Or maybe using php isn't so bad... Anyway, just wondering if any others were feeling similarly. John Miller