Brad Miller wrote:

The last note about the Python in Education BOF at PyCon inspired me to send this out.

John Zelle, Mark Guzdial, David Ranum, and myself will be hosting a special session on teaching introductory computer science with Python at SIGCSE this week. I hope that this will be an opportunity to meet some of you folks on the list face to face and have some great discussion about teaching with Python.

Hope to see you there!

Brad--

Brad has been quiet about his publication Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures Using Python http://www.fbeedle.com/053-9.html It's certainly of interest to me. Of course Alan Kay expressed this week that the teaching of algorithms and data structures in CS is a problem: that: """nothing exciting about computing today has to do with data structures and algorithms""" (Kay being paraphrased at http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/02/alan_kay_is_com.shtml) I don't think people actually understand how easy it is to talk in the voice of a Visionary- like Kay does. That's the only way he seems to talk in public - perhaps because that is what people have come to expect from him. . What he tends to say seems to me almost mundane, excepting its Grandiose Tone. And I can only assume that people are impressed with the Balls it Takes to talk in such tones. It can't really believe it's the content. Art

Brad Miller, PhD Assistant Professor Luther College http://www.cs.luther.edu/~bmiller <http://www.cs.luther.edu/%7Ebmiller> jabber: bnmnetp@jabber.org <mailto:bnmnetp@jabber.org>

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