[Edu-sig] Happy New Year 2011!!!

[A. Jorge Garcia]

>>
Oh, I maybe see the problem, you're talking about more like a dumb 
terminal setup with X running in a server session if at all.  You're 
going over the
network to get Python.
<<
Something like that...

>>
Do they get a GUI desktop?  GNOME?
<<

Well, I set up 25 PCs in my classroom on a gigabit LAN.  Each PC is 
running Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 - so, yes they have gnome and yes they 
have a GUI browser (Firefox).

I took one of these PCs and called it the "server/teacher station."  On 
this PC I added vsftp to share files with my students and openssh so 
they can login to my PC as a server to save their work.

I call my PC the "teacher station" because I use it with a PC Projector 
and a Slate (bluetooth remote mouse) mimicking a SmartBoard setup to 
demo code and give notes and even show some educational YouTube!  I 
recently added python and IDLE to this server:

apt-get install python
apt-get install idle

We tried IDLE but prefer python scripts.  So, I have my students login 
to the server via ssh from their "student stations" and write python 
scripts like hello.py which they chmod to make executable

chmod 755 hello.py

which works fine if the first line in the script is

#!/usr/bin/python

I tried to import turtle in a script using this environment but turtle 
was not found.

You say VPython works well with IDLE?  I was hoping to add VPython, 
GASP or turtle graphics to my scripts.

What do you think?

TIA,
A. Jorge Garcia
Applied Math and CompSci
http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009