[Edu-sig] Teaching python

[Jeffrey Elkner]

Actually, Kirby, I was calling for the creation of a new SIG.  There are
two very different kinds of discussions that can fall under the heading
of an Educational Special Interest Group.  One is the kind of more
theoretical discussions that generally take place here, and the other
concerns the more concrete, practical issues of classroom teachers about
finding and using instructional materials and planning lessons.

While there are undoubtedly many folks who would want to be on both
lists, there are many others who might not.  As someone working on an
introductory textbook using Python, I get mail from people interested in
the book who write me and ask where they can go to get more resources.
There are enough of these inquiries coming in now that I think it would
be appropriate to create a new list to help this emerging community of
teachers using Python to grow.

jeff


On Tue, 2001-08-28 at 12:12, Kirby Urner wrote:
> At 11:06 AM 8/28/2001 -0400, Jeffrey Elkner wrote:
> >I think Tim has an excellent idea here.  Actually, a web page and a new 
> >interest group / mailing list would be even better.  There is
> >enough interest developing that the level of traffic will warrent a
> >new group/list.
> >
> >jeff
> 
> Seems a new official SIG type list would best be spawned
> if/when traffic *did* get to that level and was a lot of
> it not clearly edu-sig related.  Seems for now that volume
> is rather low, and the proposed discussion branch is what
> edu-sig is supposed to be about, in part, no?  But maybe
> this wasn't a proposal for a new SIG.  Could be a Yahoo
> group or something.
> 
> Kirby