[Edu-sig] Using IDLE with students

[Richard Guenther]

First, thanks to Andy, John and Kirby for responding--I no longer feel alone with my concerns about the namespace issues.

Is there somewhere I can read up on these issues (other than the link to the Edu-sig archives that Any mentioned)?  Before I ask I usually search the net a lot, but I didn't find much documentation on using IDLE in an educational setting.  It would be nice if there was a tutorial that would cover the "gotchas" and also give advice to people considering using IDLE.... 

Curious,
Richard


----- Original Message ----
From: kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com>
To: Andy Judkis <ajudkis at verizon.net>
Cc: edu-sig at python.org
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 8:44:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Using IDLE with students


The subprocess idea is important I agree.

Also, psychologically, we would like students to see putting code in
a module as "canning for later" i.e. there's a strong prejudice against
thinking of the current session namespace as containing anything
vital to the operations of the module.  Picturing emailing the code to
a distant user who has never once booted Python is another mental
exercise one might use.

Kirby
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