[Edu-sig] Scientific Python 2.2

[Kirby Urner]

At 03:42 PM 4/11/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kirby Urner" <pdx4d@teleport.com>
>
>> I don't see that it includes VPython. 

>Scientific.Visualization.VPython: provides data visualization via the
>VPython extension module.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Ah so, I stand corrected.

Kirby

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And now for something completely different:

Excerpt from recent post to community college math teacher list:

My agenda is:  start kids playing with a CLI around 8th
grade if not sooner and develop programming skills in 
connection with math topics through high school.

I favor using Python for this purpose for reasons many 
computer science teachers share, and envision a time when, 
at the college level, math teachers might take basic 
competence/familiarity with Python as an ability shared 
by the average incoming student (the more accomplished 
students might know other languages in addition).

The arena in which such an agenda has the greatest 
chance of being tested/implemented in this day and age
is in the homeschooler sector, as this is where (a) kids 
already have computers and use them for self-tutoring 
and (b) innovation is happening of necessity.

However, I don't mind sharing these ideas with folks
entrenched more deeply in the status quo curriculum, 
as there might still be a notion or two which is 
transferable.  However, the real changes are probably
more likely in other contexts.

Kirby

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For those wanting to dig through the archives to read the
whole thread (my posts + many others):
http://www.mathforum.com/epigone/mathedcc/feronflix