[Python-ideas] Framework for Python for CS101

[Wes Turner]

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
>

RPython -> PyPy: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy

PyPy is both an implementation of the Python programming language, and an
> extensive compiler framework for dynamic language implementations. You can
> build self-contained Python implementations which execute independently
> from CPython.



>   * 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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