[Edu-sig] Newbie question

[Antoine van Gelder]

Guido wrote:
> Our plan has three components:
> 
>     * Develop a new computing curriculum suitable for high school and college students.
>     * Create better, easier to use tools for program development and analysis.
>     * Build a user community around all of the above, encouraging feedback and self-help.
> 
> These components come together in the scientific exploration of the role of programming in
> next generation computing environments.
> 
> We intend to start with Python, a language designed for rapid development. We believe that 
> Python makes a great first language to learn: Unlike languages designed specifically for 
> beginners, Python is also the choice of many programming professionals. It has an active, 
> growing user community which has already expressed much interest in this proposal, and
> we expect that this will be a fertile first deployment ground for the teaching materials
> and tools we propose to create. During the course of the research we will evaluate Python 
> and propose improvements or alternatives.


Please forgive me.

I know very little about the history of this forum so I have a small 
question:

Which mailing list should I be subscribed to in order to participate in 
discussion regarding the component of the plan:

   "Develop a new computing curriculum suitable for high school and 
college students."

?

There are political considerations which interact with any goals that 
involve the development of high school and college curricula and if 
edu-sig at python.org is not the place to discuss them I fear I may be in 
the wrong place!

Thank you!

:-D

  - antoine


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