Brett Cannon wrote: > On 1/12/06, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Brett, >> >>How about building a system that compiles a Python program (possibly >>annotated) to an AJAX program? That is, it analyzes the program to >>determine what's appropriate and possible for client-side and >>server-side, figures out the optimal network API (reduce latency, >>reduce calls, reduce data transfer, increase responsiveness), >>generates server-side Jython to run in Tomcat (or Python for >>mod_python), and client-side XHTML, CSS, and Javascript to implement >>the browser-based portion of the application. Oddities of browser >>implementations and Javascript VMs would be contained in the compiler >>and automatically pushed into the generated code. >> >>This would be a tremendously useful advance in building distributed >>systems that work with the Web. The current approach to AJAX is a bit >>like carpentry with old hand tools. You'd probably also push Python >>to higher levels of language-ness. >> > > > Hmm. It's an idea. I also thought of Python -> JavaScript compiler > since JavaScript is not fun and getting to test using Python might be > cool. But not sure how useful that would be. Plus I bet someone has > does this with Java or something. > If you can persuade your supervisor to be interested in educational games, a Python learning system might be an interesting project with lots of scope for user modelling and goal-directed behaviour.
There's been some work done on bomb-proofing the interpreter to offer a "try-python" type site, but nobody seems to have thought about how to engage a neophyte with an specific teaching strategy (possibly based on personality analysis) and then present problems to verify comprehension and offer appropriate feedback. That would be a terrific game! regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
