[Edu-sig] Fwd: Python in Education published by O'Reilly

[Phillip Kent]

Hi Nicholas.

Great writing. Well done.

I'd like to add one idea: disruptive potential.

For me, one of the strengths of Python is that the features you
describe combine together to give it a high disruptive potential, in
the sense which I wrote about here..

http://www.phillipkent.net/blog/maximising-disruptive-potential-programming

"....The most valuable consequences of programming are those which
disrupt conventional relationships of people with knowledge and ideas,
and (therefore) to disrupt the conventional relationships between
people and other people. Therefore the best programming language to
select is the one that will maximise the disruption to established
practices...."

As a teacher, you well understand how educational systems are weakened
by intellectual divisions and tribalism. That's why we need disruptive
potential for educational computing.

- Phillip

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In case you missed it, my FREE short report "Python in Education" was
> published yesterday by O'Reilly. There's an extract from it here (on
> O'Reilly Radar):
> radar.oreilly.com/2015/04/five-reasons-why-python-is-a-popular-teaching-language.html
>
> You can download the complete work in various digital format from here:
> http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/python-in-education.csp
>
> Alternatively, if you're currently at PyCon you can grab a dead-tree
> version from the O'Reilly booth. I believe it'll also be available IRL
> at OSCON.
>
> All feedback most welcome!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> N.
>
>
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