Guido wrote:
Our plan has three components:
* Develop a new computing curriculum suitable for high school and college students. * Create better, easier to use tools for program development and analysis. * Build a user community around all of the above, encouraging feedback and self-help.
These components come together in the scientific exploration of the role of programming in next generation computing environments.
We intend to start with Python, a language designed for rapid development. We believe that Python makes a great first language to learn: Unlike languages designed specifically for beginners, Python is also the choice of many programming professionals. It has an active, growing user community which has already expressed much interest in this proposal, and we expect that this will be a fertile first deployment ground for the teaching materials and tools we propose to create. During the course of the research we will evaluate Python and propose improvements or alternatives.
Please forgive me. I know very little about the history of this forum so I have a small question: Which mailing list should I be subscribed to in order to participate in discussion regarding the component of the plan: "Develop a new computing curriculum suitable for high school and college students." ? There are political considerations which interact with any goals that involve the development of high school and college curricula and if edu-sig@python.org is not the place to discuss them I fear I may be in the wrong place! Thank you! :-D - antoine -- "Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure." - Melvin Conway
On 7/18/07, Antoine van Gelder <hummingbird@hivemind.net> wrote:
Guido wrote:
Our plan has three components:
* Develop a new computing curriculum suitable for high school and college students. * Create better, easier to use tools for program development and analysis. * Build a user community around all of the above, encouraging feedback and self-help.
These components come together in the scientific exploration of the role of programming in next generation computing environments.
We intend to start with Python, a language designed for rapid development. We believe that Python makes a great first language to learn: Unlike languages designed specifically for beginners, Python is also the choice of many programming professionals. It has an active, growing user community which has already expressed much interest in this proposal, and we expect that this will be a fertile first deployment ground for the teaching materials and tools we propose to create. During the course of the research we will evaluate Python and propose improvements or alternatives.
Please forgive me.
I know very little about the history of this forum so I have a small question:
Which mailing list should I be subscribed to in order to participate in discussion regarding the component of the plan:
"Develop a new computing curriculum suitable for high school and college students."
?
There are political considerations which interact with any goals that involve the development of high school and college curricula and if edu-sig@python.org is not the place to discuss them I fear I may be in the wrong place!
In my view, if the political considerations directly and specifically affect Python curriculum development (or getting a particular curriculum accepted) in a particular situation, that's one thing. Going on at great length repeatedly about educational politics/philosophy in general is another. There are many lists and fora specifically for those topics. -- cordially, Anna -- It is fate, but call it Italy if it pleases you, Vicar!
Anna Ravenscroft wrote:
In my view, if the political considerations directly and specifically affect Python curriculum development (or getting a particular curriculum accepted) in a particular situation, that's one thing. Going on at great length repeatedly about educational politics/philosophy in general is another. There are many lists and fora specifically for those topics.
Thank you for taking the time to answer one of my questions Anna! :-) - antoine -- "Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure." - Melvin Conway
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