[Edu-sig] source code from SA:10648

[Calcpage]

There's a lot of content on YouTube regarding Ada Lovelace Day as  
well.  There was some discussion on the AP-CompSci listserv about  
making a Grace Murray Hopper Day as well.  The problem IIRC was that  
Hopper's and Lovelace's (or is it Byron) birthdays were very close if  
not, in fact, the same day (not year of course).

Regards,
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 21, 2010, at 5:14 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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