[Edu-sig] Fwd: PyCon 2009 - Call for proposals

[Andre Roberge]

(Apologies to Ivan for sending him a message directly rather than to
the list which I meant to do.  André)


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Andre Roberge <andre.roberge at gmail.com>
Date: 2008/9/26
Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] PyCon 2009 - Call for proposals
To: Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu>


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Ivan Krstić
<krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> PyCon '09 will be opening for talk proposals shortly; see below. We'd love
> to have some great talks on Python in education, so please don't be shy!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ivan Krstić
> Chair, PyCon 2009 Program Committee
>
>

Rising up to Ivan's challenge...   After missing last year's Pycon, I
have been hoping of going this year, and talk about Crunchy.  There
are many aspects I could cover and was wondering what people would be
most interested in.  For example:

1. using Crunchy's doctest feature as a teaching tool.  (including an
experimental "exam mode" soon to be incorporated in Crunchy's trunk).
2. using Crunchy's unittest feature as a teaching tool.  (unittest
mode was implemented this summer as part of Google SoC)
3. using the "code analyzer" feature to provide feedback to students.
(again from this summer's SoC; using pylint or pyflakes or pychecker).
4. using the simple interface to pdb  (soon to be incorporated in the trunk)
5. using a mini-language environment  (Karel the robot/rur-ple)
6. using the Croquant (a MoinMoin extension) and Crunchy in
combination to create educational resources.
etc.

I could give a talk that would be a survey of all that's available in
Crunchy (version 1.0 should be out before the new year) or go in depth
on a couple of topics.

Alternatively, I could go and give an in-depth look as how to write a
simple (and a not-so-simple) plugin for Crunchy, extending its
capabilities...

Any comment/suggestions/things you'd like to see?

André

P.S.  For those that understand French, Florian Birée gave a
presentation that included many of the new features of Crunchy (some
of which where mentioned above) at Toulouse France; this presentation
(55 minutes) has been recorded on video and is available at
http://toulibre.org/Videos   (2nd from the bottom).