[Edu-sig] more simmering debate...

[kirby urner]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Carl Karsten <carl at nextdayvideo.com> wrote:

> I also don't show real code right away.  I scribble on the white board.
>
>
Yeah, I think we're just talking about different points along the journey.

I'm fine with Blueprint and/or Cookie Cutter at first, as the predominant
metaphor, and not too much code.

But then in my code school boot camp model they might have 12 weeks x 40
hours to learn all this JavaScript -> Other Language -> Python ->
JavaScript (they go round and round in a spiral in this curriculum).

So down the road a ways, when it's important to understand more of the
Python grammar, I might move away from Blueprint and Cookie Cutter to
MotherShip and AmusementPark.

[ The version below keeps statistics at the class level (turnstyles...). ]

I like your relating programming to processing video.

I'm working to forge that connection more explicitly myself.  The idea of
"frames" (as in time frames, frames of file, intervals of action) figures
in.

Kirby


# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Wed Apr 20 16:44:44 2016

@author: Kirby Urner
Carnival Guy (aka "geek", luvs chicken)

version 0.2
(copyleft) MIT License

"""
import random

class Blech(Exception):
    pass

class AmusementPark:  # euphemism for carnival
    ferris_riders = 0
    coaster_riders = 0
    riders_born = 0

    @classmethod
    def report(A):
        return "Ferris rides: {}\nCoaster rides: {}\nRiders: {}".\
            format(A.ferris_riders, A.coaster_riders, A.riders_born)

    @classmethod
    def ferris_wheel(A, me):
        A.ferris_riders += 1
        me.sick = False
        return me

    @classmethod
    def roller_coaster(A, me):
        A.coaster_riders += 1
        # moral: don't eat before riding the roller coaster
        if len(me.stomach) > 0:
            me.sick = True    # sick state persists
            me.stomach = []  # ... this should help though
        return me

    @classmethod
    def make_rider(A):
        A.riders_born += 1
        return A()

    def __init__(self):  # born to ride
        self.stomach = []
        self.sick = False

    def __call__(self, food): # born to eat
        if self.sick:
            raise Blech("too sick to eat")
        self.stomach.append(food)

    def __repr__(self):
        if self.sick:
            return "I don't feel so good"
        else:
            return "I feel fine"


A1 = AmusementPark
alice = A1.make_rider()  # a child of her profession
bob = A1.make_rider()
carl = A1.make_rider()

def time_frame():
    while True:
        rider = random.choice([alice, bob, carl])
        ride = random.choice([A1.ferris_wheel, A1.roller_coaster])
        ride(rider)
        yield A1

frame = time_frame()
for time_tick in range(10):
    next(frame)

print(A1.report())
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/attachments/20160420/dc94fa1a/attachment.html>