[Edu-sig] Python projects for CS1

[David MacQuigg]

Hello Bill,

Your contributions of exercises for PyKata are welcome.  At the moment, 
we are classifying exercises with simple keywords: (lists, strings, 
logic) etc.   Later we plan to have the website customizable for 
teachers like yourself who have not just a few exercises, but an entire 
course optimized for a particular group of students.  When a student 
visits pykata.org/~punch, they will see just the problems you have selected.

Looks like we are getting good response to Andy's solicitation for a 
Google Summer of Code project finishing our website development.  I'm 
confident we will have this website fully developed by the end of the 
summer.  Our key advantage is open-source teamwork.  That should provide 
us with plenty of content, covering every educational need from junior 
high to graduate classes in engineering.

-- Dave

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Bill Punch wrote:
> Given all the discussion about exercises, we though we'd throw in some 
> of the work we've done. MSU has taught its CS1 course in Python since 
> the Fall of 2007. Each semester we have the students complete 11 
> programming projects (as homework). The homeworks start out easy and 
> work their way up. Each project focuses on a particular topic i.e., 
> strings, working with files, dictionaries etc.
>
> We've collected those projects on a webpage. Each project has some 
> supporting material and a solution. However, at the moment the 
> solution is not shown. We are working on that.
>
> Some of the projects ended up in the book we recently published 
> ("Practice of Computing Using Python", Punch, Enbody) but there are 
> over 58 listed here (and more coming) so there is a lot more listed on 
> the web page
>
> http://www.cse.msu.edu/~cse231/PracticeOfComputingUsingPython/index.php
>
> If you have any comments, we'd love to hear them.
> -- 
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