[Edu-sig] source code from SA:10648

[kirby urner]

Really excellent 60 Minutes excerpt, thank you.

I should show that in my next math class.

Kirby


On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Calcpage <calcpage at aol.com> wrote:
> Regarding your discussion of Grace Hopper, you may find the videos I posted
> on YouTube of interest:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/cistheta2007
>
> HTH,
> A. Jorge Garcia
> Applied Math & CS
> Baldwin SHS & Nassau CC
> http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
> http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009
> Sent from my iPod
>
> On Jul 19, 2010, at 6:15 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:41 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I'll return to post a link to my followup post.
>>>
>>
>> So here are my two write-ups of the just completed
>> Programming in Python (SA:10648):
>>
>> http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2010/07/teaching-again.html
>> http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2010/07/finish-line.html
>>
>> Also, the math teachers on math-teach @ Math Forum
>> are starting to ramp up again, on the whole idea of
>> pre-college computer science or digital / discrete math
>> or whatever we call it:
>>
>> Here's a link to the thread (public archive).
>>
>> http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2095707&tstart=0
>>
>> You'll see me weighing in with my familiar (to some here)
>> views, but also expressing this new angst about IDLE.
>>
>> Excerpts:
>>
>> """
>> Steve Holden, chairman of the Python Software Foundation,
>> has been suggesting the it may be time to retire IDLE,
>> removing it from the standard distro. Indeed, on Ubuntu
>> I'm pretty sure one needs to install it separately...
>> """
>>
>> """
>> When learning programming for the first time, you can
>> dive into object oriented thinking right away, because
>> this style of thinking was modeled on ordinary human
>> grammar.
>>
>> noun.verb( ) and noun.adjective correspond to things
>> (nouns) having behaviors and attributes (what could
>> be more natural)?
>> """
>>
>> I talk about some of my history lobbying for a new
>> discrete math course here -- how I first become aware
>> of the Litvins text (at a planning workshop with
>> Chris Brooks just about one year ago):
>>
>> """
>> For those new to this list, I've been putting myself out
>> there as a kind of lobbyist trying to get something called
>> computational, digital, discrete and/or fill-in-the-blank math
>> that is for-credit in equal measure with any of the pre-calc
>> or calc track classes. I've done a lot of writing about this,
>> describing my network and our political tactics. I won't
>> go into all that again here.
>> """
>>
>> http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2095937
>>
>> Kirby
>>
>>>
>>> Kirby Urner
>>> 4dsolutions.net/ocn/cp4e.html
>>
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