[Edu-sig] continuing with ES6 / Python comparison, other chatter

[Wes Turner]

These are probably good for comparison:

- https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/javascript/
- https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python/
- https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python3/

ECMAScript / Javascript

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript
  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
  - ES6

ES6 (ES2015 (ECMAScript 2015))

- Standard: http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/
  -
http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/#sec-additions-and-changes-that-introduce-incompatibilities-with-prior-editions

- http://es6-features.org
- https://github.com/lukehoban/es6features

- https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
- http://caniuse.com/#feat=es6-class

- https://github.com/babel/babel-standalone


On Saturday, November 26, 2016, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I just had shared "sushi train" (conveyor belt actually) with
> a an IT chief with Everett School District, far north of here,
> during which we discussed whether or not listservs (such
> as edu-sig here) are on the decline across the board, having
> been replaced with other social media by next generations
> of Internet savvy.  Do we know that for sure?
>
> For my part, I'm sure it depends on the subculture.  I'm on
> a very active listserv around csound, the music synth
> language and engine, several posts a day. I'm sure sci.math
> is as frantic as ever.
>
> nbviewer seems to time out quite a bit and I don't think it's
> just me. Does the site get overloaded?
>
> I'm somewhat more likely than not to link directly to the
> Github version i.e. the raw source, as here:
>
> https://github.com/4dsolutions/Python5/blob/master/Comparing%20JavaScript%
> 20with%20Python.ipynb
>
> Shortened: https://goo.gl/jUqIwA
>
> ...versus feeding the latter through nbviewer.  However
> the latter does a more thorough job in many cases, so
> I find it's worth it when it works.
>
> The above Notebook was just now lengthened with a
> new comparison of ES6 and Python3 function calls.
>
> Question: will nbviewer accept a shortened URL as
> input?
>
> Answer: no, but you're free to shorten the "nbviewer
> + Github URL" combo naturally:  https://goo.gl/HtM0NR
>
> Did you know ES6 is the first edition of JavaScript
> wherein what we Pythonistas call default named
> parameters and sequence parameters were first
> acquired?
>
> In the above Notebook I extend to another example
> showing these features in both, comparing two recipe()
> functions.
>
> One could say Python has two "rest parameters", one
> for "positionals," the others for "named".
>
> Perhaps in Python "keyword parameter" is a little more
> correct than "named parameter" as the latter implies
> use of = (naming) to give a default value, whereas
> as shown in the example, one may have unnamed
> parameters to the right of a sequence parameter,
> that as a consequence are only reachable with
> named arguments.
>
> Les (the above IT chief), is very familiar with the
> Chromebook scene around public schooling in the
> state just north of Oregon. I'm likely to venture into
> that space pretty soon, as a Portland-based trainer.
>
> This will be a day job so I'm hopeful I'll be continuing
> with the evening gig as "radio show" broadcaster
> (a zoom.us-based tele-class).
>
> Speaking of which, I've been dropping in on some
> of Trey Hunners chat sessions after the fact (I've
> yet to make it to a live showing).  I learned quite
> a bit about duck typing in connection abc types
> such as Sequence, thanks to this video:
>
> https://www.crowdcast.io/e/duck-typing
> <http://treyhunner.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cdbc9ae7bf54c3dff2773ea2d&id=377dc1d5ad&e=16760d8b0b>
>
> I'm guessing more people learn about such free
> resources from Twitterverse than from listservs these
> days, but I don't have hard data.
>
> I wonder if Python.org keeps any stats on gross
> subscriber numbers, posting rates etc. within its
> vast Mailman empire:
>
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo
>
> Kirby
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/attachments/20161126/0849a52d/attachment-0001.html>