Re: [Edu-sig] Renaming PyWhip

2010-02-26 Thread Andrew Harrington
PyKata sounds great. I think we will need a bit on the home page to explain the derivation. It fits beautiful with the flexible ideas we have of this having parts useful to people at multiple levels with many different backgrounds. Andy On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:46 PM, kirby urner

[Edu-sig] Fwd: From one of your old students!!

2010-02-26 Thread michel paul
Just received this email from a former student earlier this week, and it really made my day. It's an excellent falsification of an argument I was being given last year that Python in math classes MIGHT be OK for really motivated math students likely to major in some STEM discipline but that it

Re: [Edu-sig] Fwd: From one of your old students!!

2010-02-26 Thread David MacQuigg
Hi Michel, We need a webpage with testimonials like this from former students. If you don't have a good place for it, I'll start a page on PyKata. (Yes, we are pretty well settled on that name now.) And here I was thinking PyKata was for math and science students only. Bosh!! We can

Re: [Edu-sig] Renaming PyWhip

2010-02-26 Thread Andrew Harrington
From my googling, pykata means build in Finnish. Not bad. Andy On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Andrew Harrington ahar...@luc.edu wrote: PyKata sounds great. I think we will need a bit on the home page to explain the derivation. It fits beautiful with the flexible ideas we have of this