[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 115, Issue 10

[Jeff Elkner]

That video is still available:

http://openbookproject.net/pybiblio/pythonvideo.php

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>    1. Python testimonial sought... (Andre Roberge)
>    2. Quarter III, Week 3: SmartNotes, ScreenCasts and Code,    oh my!
>       (A. Jorge Garcia)
>    3. Re: Python testimonial sought... (kirby urner)
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> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:39:17 -0400
> From: Andre Roberge <andre.roberge at gmail.com>
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> A few years ago (at least 5 I believe) I remember reading an account from
> two students who had to do a term project in their final CS year.  They
> decided to do it in Python (which they had learned on their own) whereas
> everyone else was using something like C++ or Java which was taught in
> their department.  From what I remember, they completed the required work
> in something like 4 weeks whereas no other student team managed to do it
> while working for the entire term.
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> Does anyone remember this and, more crucially, would have a link to the
> original story?
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> Andr?
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> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:42:30 -0500 (EST)
> From: "A. Jorge Garcia" <calcpage at aol.com>
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> Subject: [Edu-sig] Quarter III, Week 3: SmartNotes, ScreenCasts and
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> Take a look at my CSH link in the blog listed below. CSH is my Computer
> Science Honors (SAGE/python) class which is a prerequisite for AP
> Computer Science (java). In CSH we usually run SAGE, but we used pure
> python from the command line for the first time ever this week!
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> http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/2013/02/quarter-iii-week-3-screencasts.html
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> It's nothing too advanced. We're doing Binary Arithmetic, Boolean
> Logic, propositions, predicates and conditional statements right now.
> We wrote RockPaperScissors in SAGE automated with random choices for
> each player. We could not see a way to make it interactive in SAGE so
> the user could input choices and play against the computer, so we went
> with the CLI. In fact, I have a link on the CSH blog from programr.com
> so you can actually run the program yourself within the blog!
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> You may also find my CIS(theta) link interesting. CIS is my Computing
> Independent Study class where we are using mpi4py on a Linux Cluster!
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> Enjoy,
> A. Jorge Garcia
> Applied Math, Physics and CS
> http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
> http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009
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> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:05:17 -0800
> From: kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com>
> To: Andre Roberge <andre.roberge at gmail.com>
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> Hi Andre --
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> My clearest memory along those lines was it was a "talking head" maybe
> Jeff Elkner himself in that student-made video about the virtues of
> Python.
>
> You may recall the video:  there's an "old hippie" dad, a parody of a
> student's father.  It's a kind of love story, where this girl show
> this boy how easy it is to learn this language.  I actually thought it
> was kinda sweet and regret that it's no longer out there (or maybe it
> is).
>
> My recollection is way have several cutaway shots to teacher / experts
> who share their enthusiasm for this new language and it was in one of
> those interviews that the point is made that in C/C++ you just never
> get to tackle the kinds of projects Python allows because you're still
> mired in the details of setting up a memory file for graphics or
> whatever the low-level hell.
>
> Kirby
>
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> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Andre Roberge <andre.roberge at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A few years ago (at least 5 I believe) I remember reading an account from
>> two students who had to do a term project in their final CS year.  They
>> decided to do it in Python (which they had learned on their own) whereas
>> everyone else was using something like C++ or Java which was taught in their
>> department.  From what I remember, they completed the required work in
>> something like 4 weeks whereas no other student team managed to do it while
>> working for the entire term.
>>
>> Does anyone remember this and, more crucially, would have a link to the
>> original story?
>>
>> Andr?
>>
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