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I don't think it's beyond the pale, for edu-sig even, to include some threads on how Python might be used in ecosystems with other languages that share the same VM, the two main ones being: (a) .NET ...
Kirby urner
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A highlight of OSCON for me: Pingo means "pin, go!": Universal IoT programming in Python by Luciano Ramalho (Python.pro.br) http://www.oscon.com/open-source-2015/public/schedule/detail/40410 I'm not ...
Kirby urner
Aug 15, 2015 at 10:25 pm
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For those who haven't heard: https://wiki.python.org/psf/PythonEduWG My plate is full with python-cuba (another WG) etc. however I'll be monitoring the archives and maybe joining in a less busy ...
Kirby urner
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I've posted about Quadrays on edu-sig before.... going back and forth between two languages may be a good way to learn both, or to learn one using one's knowledge of the other. In this case, I'm ...
Kirby Urner
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OSCON: Lessons Learned by Kirby Urner, Mentor, O'Reilly School of Technology What the bigger enterprises are discovering, along with small and mid-sized, is that Open Source is not just end products, ...
Kirby Urner
Jul 30, 2015 at 11:44 pm
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Thinking of how I might design a robust computer science learning thread using today's open source tools. See caveats at the bottom. Python is oft circled as a great first language, but then what? ...
Kirby urner
Jul 26, 2015 at 8:36 pm
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(1) From our home page: More and more, Python is making inroads <http://wiki.python.org/moin/SchoolsUsingPython at all levels in education. Python offers an interactive environment in which to ...
Kirby urner
Jul 13, 2015 at 6:58 pm
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I just got a notice from Google that PyKata and a few other programs I developed using the Google App Engine, will no longer work unless I migrate these applications to their new High Replication ...
David MacQuigg
Jul 6, 2015 at 11:21 pm
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I'm pleased how little code is required to make a decent Mandelbrot Set image using Numpy + PIL, neither of which am I expert at using. This is how one learns. :-D Here's how it looks on my screen ...
Kirby Urner
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Hi Folks, A quick heads up: today we're announcing the fourth annual PyCon UK education track today. Details can be found here: http://www.pyconuk.org/education/ Register here ...
Nicholas H.Tollervey
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Congratulations! I've benefited a lot from Mark's work myself. Just having Python go so deeply in Windows helped make it the household name it is today. Kirby An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL ...
Kirby urner
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""" The code below derives from a thread on elections-wg at python.org where we were talking about tie-breaking techniques. There's a well known way that's actually used, but I was inspired to think ...
Kirby urner
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I've actually written some code for Python5 and it's a work in progress. Tractors instead of Turtles but as a way of introducing Turtles i.e. I'm not "anti-Turtle" in using a Tractor instead. A ...
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Python is a lot more elegant than xBase in many ways, but then those of us coming from xBase appreciate the continuity. For example having a " " (chevron) instead of a dot prompt (". ") is ...
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May 23, 2015 at 7:55 pm
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We know the Great Lambda languages like LISP and Scheme have lambdas that might go on for pages, whereas Python has a "little lambda": one expression only. That expression may be another lambda ...
Kirby urner
May 23, 2015 at 1:17 am
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I take a debate-encouraging position against the standard cohort-based, curve- and letter-graded style of teaching in this blog post from when I was the USDLA (distance learning) conference ...
Kirby urner
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Discussion of student privacy, especially cyber-privacy on math-teach, including my reply re the efficacy / relevance of "Gnu Math": http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID'06045 Kirby An HTML ...
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I was playing with this somewhat dated and not fully accepted key or legend the gender diversity people sometimes use: . diversity_acronyms = {'G':'Gay', 'L':'Lesbian', 'T':'Trans', 'B':'Bi', ...
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*TEACHER TO TEACHER: PYTHONIC NOTES* *1. Docstrings Versus Comments* In teaching Python quite a bit, I find even pro programmers get confused about docstrings, as many languages have nothing quite ...
Kirby Urner
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Marianne McKenna
May 15, 2015 at 10:00 am
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Taigi, u?siregistravo 500+ susidom?jusi? Python programavimu moksleivi?!.. Jei kas nor?t? pad?t juos pakonsultuot ar kurt bendruomen? -- duokit ?n.. :) ...
Jurgis Pralgauskis
May 14, 2015 at 9:46 pm
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As long time readers here may recall, I'm a fan of the J language, a derivative / spin-off of APL by Iverson, and indeed the late Iverson, son Eric and Roger Hui, developed a cool ASCII-friendly ...
Kirby urner
May 14, 2015 at 5:12 pm
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Hello, engaging in interactive tasks is better, than just giving tutorials/examples. There are quite a few such tools/courses, but not many mentioned in ...
Jurgis Pralgauskis
May 12, 2015 at 1:15 am
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People will read my subject heading and think I'm asking "what computer language?" but I'm actually asking what world human languages should be used to share computer science -- or should they need ...
Kirby urner
May 11, 2015 at 1:54 pm
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The USDLA conference in St. Louis was a blast. That city has made some bold moves to save itself from decay post End of the Passenger Train Era (we still have Amtrak but 99% of traffic is by air) ...
Kirby urner
May 9, 2015 at 12:05 am
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Hi, turtle module is nice way to introduce to Python, but, if I want to increase x by 10, I have to write t.setx( t.xcor() + 1) which is uglier (and not beginner friendly) than common: t.x = t.x + 1 ...
Jurgis Pralgauskis
Apr 27, 2015 at 3:19 pm
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Shout out to Jessica and Chalmers for all the hard work they put in organizing the EDU Summit at Pycon 2015 in Montreal! All of the presentations where both simulating and inspiring, and the ...
Jeff Elkner
Apr 12, 2015 at 11:05 am
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Chalmer Lowe
Apr 11, 2015 at 4:11 pm
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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) ...
Nicholas H.Tollervey
Apr 11, 2015 at 12:07 pm
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My 3-page paper concluding with the graphic rendered by this source code: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2015-March/011203.html (Python + POV-Ray) was roundly rejected by the Bridges ...
Kirby urner
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Jurgis Pralgauskis
Apr 6, 2015 at 9:08 pm
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This tutorial at PyCon in the next few weeks will cover using Python to manipulate Minecraft. Not sure if this is on the Raspberry Pi version OR works against the Desktop PC version of Minecraft. On ...
Chalmer Lowe
Mar 23, 2015 at 3:43 pm
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The latest issue of Communications of the ACM (March 2015) has an article titled "Python for Beginners" with a few points that surprised me. The first thing that got my attention was the banner text ...
David MacQuigg
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