[Edu-sig] Getting it going

[Guido van Rossum]

> 2. The teaching materials that Ricard Crook and Gareth McCaughan
> sent to me are excellent!  We will have those up on our web site by
> the end of next week.

Can you send me the URL (when it's done) so I can point to them from
the edu-sig home page?

> 3. Taking an idea from the first edu-sig meeting at the conference,
> four of our students are working on a Pokemon card game in Python.
> They will be putting it on sourceforge when it really gets underway.
> I'm hoping both to give them a fun project to work on and to have
> something to use to begin to interest my 8 year old son in Python.

Didn't someone at the meeting coin the term Pokethon?  Or was it
Pythemon? :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)