[Python-ideas] Framework for Python for CS101

[Wes Turner]

Ways to teach Python from first principles:

* Restrict the syntactical token list ("switch features on and off")
  * Fork Python
  * RPython -- https://rpython.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
  * https://pypi.python.org/pypi/RestrictedPython
  * http://pyvideo.org/video/2585/building-and-breaking-a-python-sandbox
  * OR: execute code in container (e.g. LXC, LXD, Docker (JupyterHub);
virtualization)

* Add a preprocessor with a cost function to limit valid tokens for a given
code submission
  (see the links to the Python grammar, tokenizer, compiler linked above)

* Modify nbgrader to evaluate submissions with such a cost function:
  https://github.com/jupyter/nbgrader

* Receive feedback about code syntax and tests from a CI system with
repository commit (web)hooks
  * BuildBot, Jenkins, Travis CI, xUnit XML

https://westurner.org/wiki/awesome-python-testing#continuous-integration-ci-and-continuous-delivery-cd



On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas <
python-ideas at python.org> wrote:

> On May 25, 2015, at 22:36, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am talking of a framework for a teacher to chart a course through
> python, not any changes per se to python itself.
>
> How exactly can you allow a teacher to "chart a course through python"
> that includes separate function and generator function definition
> statements, procedures as distinct from functions, etc. without changing
> Python? Python doesn't have the configurability to switch those features on
> and off, and also doesn't have the features to switch on in the first place.
>
> > A teacher wanting to chart a different course through python should be
> free (and encouraged) to do that as well.
>
>
> I would like a framework for a teacher to chart a course through driving
> the Nissan 370Z that would allow me to start off teaching hoverpads instead
> of wheels, but a teacher wanting to chart a different course should be free
> to start with sails instead. And I want to do this without changing
> anything about the 370Z.
>
>
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