[Edu-sig] satacad python pdx

[Arthur]

Kirby writes - 
> 
> I think Portland is fortunate in having quite a few snake charmers of high
> caliber, such as Kevin Altis, Kevin Turner, Dylan Reinhardt and others.
> If
> demand for Python trainers grows, we should be able to cover the field by
> intelligently coordinating our efforts (e.g. Altis is our GUI guru, and
> Dunn, but he's all the way in Vancouver :-D).

Isn't Patrick Logan another PortlandPythonista?

Surprisingly I am not aware of much activity in New York.  What there is
seems very Zope-centric.

BTW I was thrilled that you mentioned you might give PyGeo an appearance at
your class.

I would love it if you used a more recent version than is on my website. I
am particularly interested in what you think of the approach I am taking to
documentation.  The effort there is to again combine exposure of the API to
some exposure to the geometric concepts.  For exposure to the geometric
concepts I take advantage of Web resources, most particularly MathWorld

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

So, for example, when I document the PyGeo class CircumCircle, I link to 

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Circumcircle.html

etc.

(docutils was a godsend in writing the docs.  The docutils source text of
the PyGEo docs are in the doc tree, so you might even use it to show off
docutils a bit - i.e. how the source text is formatted and transformed to
the html by docutils)  

Given your classroom has internet connectivity, you can take advantage of
this, or at this demonstrate it.

The currentish version is available from my sourceforge site:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygeo/

If you find retrieving it from cvs a pain, let me know and I'll send you a
copy.


Art