[Edu-sig] Contagious Fun, etc.
Dick Zantow
rzantow@usa.net
7 Jun 2001 17:29:13 EDT
[Decloaking]
To all:
I have to say that the recent threads are the most exciting developments =
I've
seen in relation to Python since before 2.0. I'm aiming to teach my art-l=
oving
daughter Python this summer (or, more selfishly, have myself learn it bet=
ter),
and the resources you've been bringing up strike me as just the wedge to
unleash her energy on the project. It may or may not be 4E, but 4Some it =
could
be what opens the floodgates.
One of Python's strengths is that it can be extended in so many ways. The=
weakness of that approach is that there wind up being so many diffuse thr=
eads
that it's hard to see how they all fit together. It seems that this proje=
ct
would help bind a bunch of theminto an extremely useful fabric. And (to m=
ix
metaphors) it would provide a framework to hang a lot of other threads fr=
om.
I'm looking forward to the product, and I would certainly like to see oth=
ers
like it -- groupings of related packages with tutorials and examples to s=
how
how they fit together. And who knows? Amid the other projects there might=
even
be one I'd have something to contribute to. =
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