Dear Johannes, I am *very* interested in a Crunchy Frog version of the book. I've been working on the 2nd edition this summer, and the latest version can be found here:
http://ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCS/python.php I had asked a summer intern of ours, David Muffley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), to do just what you are offering, but it would be better if you could take the lead and he could provide you assistance if you need it. A few thoughts that may be of help: * the original source for the book is in lore, which is a subset of xhtml. If the VLAM required for Crunchy will pass through lore without complaint, and if it will do "the right thing" on a site that doesn't have Crunchy running, then we could include the VLAM in the main source of the book. * Nick Wheeler has been working on a debian package for Crunchy. I plan to have it running as a server process on our classroom LTSP server, and have it automagically work for students who access the book. I hope we can accomplish that. * In the long term, I was thinking that a Jython version of Crunchy would allow it to be used on-line. If you need any help with Lore, David Muffley said he would be available today. You could also contact me as a backup. Thanks! It is great to see all the progress being made getting tools together for using Python in education. The time since the last Pycon has been *very* active and successful. jeff On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:57:33 +0100, Johannes Woolard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dear Jeffrey, > >I am one of the Summer of Code students working with the Python >Software Foundation, specifically on educational software. I have been >working on Andre Roberge's Crunchy Frog >(http://www.crunchy.sourceforge.net/) and to finish off my summer's >work I would like to create an interactive version of How to Think >like a Computer Scientist. > >Creating interactive python tutorials with Crunchy is child's play - >it would involve giving all of the examples some form of interactive >element and inserting other interactive bits in the text where >appropriate. You can look at some examples of what I mean if you >download our current preview release from the sourceforge site. > >This would involve minimal changes to the text and content, but would >I believe make the book even more educational and helpful. > >What is your opinion on this? Would you be happy for me to take the >book and (I hope) develop it? > >yrs > >Johannes Woolard > >PS. I am CC'ing this to Andre Roberge, who is also working on crunchy frog. > >-- >Johannes Woolard, >Entz Rep, >Oriel College > >mobile: 07837880296 > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
