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0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 145, Issue 16

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Marianne McKenna
Aug 31, 2015 at 10:02 am
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0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 145, Issue 15

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Marianne McKenna
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0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 145, Issue 14

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Marianne McKenna
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0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 145, Issue 13

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0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 145, Issue 12

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0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 145, Issue 11

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Aug 26, 2015 at 10:00 am
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0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 145, Issue 10

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0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 145, Issue 9

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0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 145, Issue 8

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Marianne McKenna
Aug 23, 2015 at 10:00 am
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0	[Edu-sig] Python inter-op in JVM especially

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
Aug 22, 2015 at 8:49 pm
Aug 22, 2015 at 8:49 pm

0	[Edu-sig] hardware hacking

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
Aug 15, 2015 at 10:25 pm

0	[Edu-sig] new Education WG within Python.org (i.e. PSF board authorized)

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
Aug 12, 2015 at 5:40 pm
Aug 12, 2015 at 5:40 pm

8	[Edu-sig] Quadrays again... cross-training in two langauges

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
Aug 6, 2015 at 5:35 pm
Aug 10, 2015 at 11:00 pm

0	[Edu-sig] OSCON: Lessons Learned

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
Jul 30, 2015 at 11:44 pm

4	[Edu-sig] trails through the ecosystem: language sequence

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
Aug 1, 2015 at 5:44 am

0	[Edu-sig] Infrastructure Issues (typo + broken link + outta date info)

(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
Jul 13, 2015 at 6:58 pm

0	[Edu-sig] Fairwell PyKata

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
Jul 6, 2015 at 11:21 pm

2	[Edu-sig] a Mandelbrot Set in a few lines of Python

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
Jun 19, 2015 at 5:12 pm
Jun 23, 2015 at 10:53 pm

0	[Edu-sig] ATTENTION! Education track now open!

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
Jun 10, 2015 at 1:23 pm
Jun 10, 2015 at 1:23 pm

0	[Edu-sig] Congratulations to Mark Hammond

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
Jun 10, 2015 at 12:22 am
Jun 10, 2015 at 12:22 am

1	[Edu-sig] fun with voting (by secret ballot)

""" 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
Jun 9, 2015 at 11:18 pm
Jun 10, 2015 at 1:37 am

1	[Edu-sig] Python5 @ OST / HK (science fiction)

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 ...

Kirby Urner
Jun 8, 2015 at 4:43 pm
Jun 13, 2015 at 4:55 pm

0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 143, Issue 4

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Marianne McKenna
Jun 5, 2015 at 10:00 am
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0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 143, Issue 3

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Marianne McKenna
Jun 4, 2015 at 10:00 am
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0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 143, Issue 2

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Marianne McKenna
Jun 3, 2015 at 10:00 am
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0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 143, Issue 1

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Marianne McKenna
Jun 2, 2015 at 10:00 am
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0	[Edu-sig] Coming from FoxPro...

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 ...

Kirby Urner
Jun 1, 2015 at 4:50 pm
Jun 1, 2015 at 4:50 pm

0	[Edu-sig] talking about "operators" in Python namespace

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Kirby urner
May 23, 2015 at 7:55 pm
May 23, 2015 at 7:55 pm

0	[Edu-sig] "little lambda" again

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
May 23, 2015 at 1:17 am

1	[Edu-sig] Distance Learning: where and how

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
May 22, 2015 at 2:21 am
Jun 6, 2015 at 5:39 pm

0	[Edu-sig] student privacy and Gnu Math

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 ...

Kirby urner
May 19, 2015 at 2:21 pm
May 19, 2015 at 2:21 pm

0	[Edu-sig] confirming dict def behavior with gender diversity dict

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', ...

Kirby urner
May 18, 2015 at 4:56 pm
May 18, 2015 at 4:56 pm

0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 142, Issue 9

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Marianne McKenna
May 18, 2015 at 10:00 am
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0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 142, Issue 8

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Marianne McKenna
May 17, 2015 at 10:00 am
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0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 142, Issue 7

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Marianne McKenna
May 16, 2015 at 10:00 am
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1	[Edu-sig] Pythonic Notes: comments versus docstrings, other topics

*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
May 16, 2015 at 4:24 am
May 16, 2015 at 4:28 am

0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 142, Issue 6

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Marianne McKenna
May 15, 2015 at 10:00 am
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0	[Edu-sig] Fwd: Žaidimų programavimo kursai moksleiviams su Python

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
May 14, 2015 at 9:46 pm

1	[Edu-sig] Using Grammar with OO

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
May 14, 2015 at 6:32 pm

0	[Edu-sig] Python interactive learning resources

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
May 12, 2015 at 1:15 am

6	[Edu-sig] teaching computer science: what language?

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
May 12, 2015 at 3:14 am

3	[Edu-sig] Python News from My Corner

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
May 9, 2015 at 5:42 pm

5	[Edu-sig] turtle: properties instead of setters/getters ?

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
Apr 28, 2015 at 10:04 pm

0	[Edu-sig] Thanks Jessica and Chalmers for a wonderful EDU Summit!

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
Apr 12, 2015 at 11:05 am

0	[Edu-sig] Python education summit open space today at 2.30 to 4.00

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Chalmer Lowe
Apr 11, 2015 at 4:11 pm
Apr 11, 2015 at 4:11 pm

1	[Edu-sig] Python in Education published by O'Reilly

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
Apr 12, 2015 at 10:14 am

3	[Edu-sig] Post Mortem (Bridges submission)

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
Apr 9, 2015 at 4:43 pm
Apr 10, 2015 at 2:01 pm

0	[Edu-sig] Code.org puzzle solving activities in Python

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Jurgis Pralgauskis
Apr 6, 2015 at 9:08 pm
Apr 6, 2015 at 9:08 pm

0	[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 140, Issue 12

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
Mar 23, 2015 at 3:43 pm

15	[Edu-sig] ACM article on Python

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
Mar 13, 2015 at 2:33 pm
Mar 24, 2015 at 2:44 am

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