Student teaching and tutorials
Hello everyone,Im going into highschool next year and I've been following this thread for some time now. The biggest problem I have faced with learning python is the lack of showing the point of the lesson in a way you could use it in programming. For example, THE QUICK PYTHON BOOK, an excellent source teaches about lists, tuples, and dictionaries among other things, yet if fails to show them used in other ways than stand alone examples such as: a = [ 1, 2, "first"] print a They don't seem to develop it much further. I quickly understand lists and stuff and then they jump into class and control flow which is more complicated. What the greatest teaching tool ever for me would a python tutorial on how to build a message board/forum. This would include everything from lists to classes to htmlgen. It would also show me a practical use for everything, by using something I am highly interested in. Web development and game development are the two things held in regard by students. I would also love an easier tutorial for total beginners branching off pygame. The trick to teaching anything is to go over the same things over and over, but each way in a slightly different manner or point of view while holding the readers interest. As a last note, I find many tutorials helpful, but something they all lack is a test or review at the end. This would help me greatly, because that is how i am used to learning things in school. Thanks, Conrad
At 09:26 AM 7/8/2003 -0700, Conrad Koziol wrote:
They don't seem to develop it much further. I quickly understand lists and stuff and then they jump into class and control flow which is more complicated. What the greatest teaching tool ever for me would a python tutorial on how to build a message board/forum. This would include everything from lists to classes to htmlgen.
There's something like this in 'Python: How to Program' (Deitel). It's XML based, using Python. It presumes you have a web server (e.g. Apache) available, and are using Python as your cgi language. Very simple message board. The book itself is fairly spendy (like $85). I see Amazon has some used: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0130923613/ I worked as one of the technical reviewers on this one. One of my complaints was that several chapters have little to do with Python. That's because it's part of a series across several languages and some of the stuff they just recycle. Kirby
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