On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Kirby Urner <kur...@oreillyschool.com> wrote:
> > 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 subclass > of Tractor, CropCircleTractor, outputs the Mandelbrot > Set. ASCII art output in version one, swapping in > better graphics (deeper bit-wells) as the course > progresses. > > Here's some public-facing storyboarding showing these concepts taking shape. Of course there's conversation to go with (memos 'n stuff). Steve Holden wrote Python1-4 and Python5 continues in his footsteps, picking up on already-introduced topics (e.g. arrays, complex numbers): https://www.flickr.com/photos/kirbyurner/sets/72157654417641521 Storyboarding is an approach I take to curriculum writing, inspired by the film industry and comic books. For example, one of my four Digital Math topic hoppers is Martian Math [1], which I've test piloted around Portland, Oregon over the years. Here's some storyboarding around Martian Math which, in my treatment, overlaps Python, as you will see in the linked Table of Contents (Reed College experiment).... https://www.flickr.com/photos/kirbyurner/sets/72157624750749042 http://www.4dsolutions.net/satacad/martianmath/toc.html Another test pilot project, me as mentor, University of Portland: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kirbyurner/sets/72157630917499226 I expect to get to 3D graphics in Python5 thanks to import visual. Kirby [1] http://wikieducator.org/Digital_Math
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