kirby urner wrote: > The idea of rich data structures was to take advantage of the > Internet by providing students with more meaningful precoded > data through which to plow. > > Examples: > > * all the bones in the body as a tree structure (with some fancy > networking among skull bones) > > * GIS info (I posted cities.xml from Winterhaven) > > * the eight planets of our solar system, plus Pluto and Iris > (the latter owned by CBS (smile)). > > The idea of a rich data stream anticipates Python 3's strong > powers around data bitting (new bit type), which'll make OO > dissection of IPv6 packets (legacy IPv4 packets) a cinch.
Kirby, I've seen your posts re building up a reusable set of data for teaching before, and I think it is a good idea. Where are you collecting and making this information available? It seems like a single project under source control would allow others to utilize and contribute to such a stockpile, piece by piece. -Jeff _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
