Re: [Edu-sig] strategies for teaching Python

Hi Kirby, A good Python + math investigation could be to use Python to generate some type of simulated event data (network, physics, pure math, etc), not limited to just 2 parameters per event, and then use plotting software to appreciate how different the same data can look in various

Re: [Edu-sig] some new open source Python writing (Jupyter Notebooks)

Hi Kirby, Thanks for sharing that. Why do you call the GitHub repo "Python5"? -Charles On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 4:03 PM, kirby urner wrote: > > Sorry: > > https://github.com/4dsolutions/Python5/blob/master/Introduction.ipynb > > the previous one got away. > > I confess to

Re: [Edu-sig] teaching Python 3.5 in 2016: snapshot

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:59 AM, kirby urner wrote: > > Thank you for this most interesting post Charles! > Glad to catch your interest! > > >> But the team teaching aspect is the point of this post. Not every >> teacher can have the luxury of a like-minded programmer

Re: [Edu-sig] teaching Python 3.5 in 2016: snapshot

Hi Kirby & Edu-sig, I’ve just returned from a year-long assignment abroad where I wrangled Django/Python and JavaScript systems for the Government of Guyana. As a side project I also taught an 8 week course on WebApp development to the GIS division of their Geology and Mines Commission. I’d

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there is a misunderstanding somewhere here, but it's hard to trace if messages are being deleted from the queue or whatever is going on. Let's see if this goes through ... Best Regards, Charles On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Charles Cossé cco...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for keeping

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to edu-sig for these non-constructive digressions. Charles Cossé ___ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig

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... Charles Cossé Asymptopia Software http://www.asymptopia.org ___ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig

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to cause non-math-loving children to beg for math, and much more. I would like to generate some discussion here on the edu-sig with anyone interested. I hope there are some! Thanks in advance for any and all feedback, Charles Cossé, Ph.D. Asymptopia Software http://www.asymptopia.org/media

[Edu-sig] In search of ... feedback

, Charles Cossé, Ph.D. Asymptopia Software http://www.asymptopia.org/media/project_files/AutoTeachBriefOverview.pdf ___ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig

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Sorry about the missing subject line ... should have read: In search of ... feedback On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Charles Cossé cco...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Edu-Sig Folks, Below is a link to a short pdf (840 words) describing a project that makes kids study and learn in exchange

Re: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners

Hi, I've been programming in python for 15 years now, always and only with NEdit. It has syntax-highlighting, tabs and enhanced whitespace toggleability ... all you need, and nothing else. It's part of every Linux distro that I'm aware of. Developed at Fermilab!! Good luck, Charles Cosse

Re: [Edu-sig] Teaching GUI's in Python?

Hello Brian, I agree with Vern Ceder thay pygame is the best for your purposes (probably turtle, too, but personally don't know about that). Also, though, thought I'd suggest that you could throw-in some material to illustrate the syntactic similarities between python and javascript. I do a lot

Re: [Edu-sig] What do you use for making presentations of a scatterplot of data

NPlot from the nirvana project at Fermilab. On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote: I'd like to make a presentation where I have a series of (informational) points to make, each of which is associated with a cartesian (x, y) coordinate in a scatter plot.

Re: [Edu-sig] OO and story problems

Greetings, Kirby, just thought I'd throw-out-there that physics/astronomy can offer a context that is neither meaningless, nor open to political propaganda. Of course anything can be twisted, but at least it's relatively free from the specters that your opponents point out. Just a .02 cent

Re: [Edu-sig] General Programming Education

in Java!). As far as the teaching in general, I think introducing via procedural and motivating oop by example would be a good approach. Best Regards, Charles Cossé (sorry for 2x emails Corey -- 1st one didn't cc edu-sig) On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Corey Richardson kb1...@aim.com wrote

Re: [Edu-sig] AP Computer Science

Speaking of Java and Python ... I was thinking earlier this week about the difference in a Java-trained programmer programming in Python versus Python-trained programer programming in Java. (The latter is neater and cleaner, I think) For a Python programmer having to use Java there is Jython.

Re: [Edu-sig] Why Python?

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:36 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote: Math is an outdoor sport is one of our slogans. I've heard that referred to as a mathlete. ___ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org

Re: [Edu-sig] thought re graphing calculators ...

bbl...@bryant.edu On Sep 27, 2009, at 19:38 , Charles Cossé wrote: Hi, this has probably been discussed to death already, but maybe not: The point at which fancy graphing calculators become necessary (ie as in one's student career) is the point at which the calculator should be abandoned

[Edu-sig] thought re graphing calculators ...

Hi, this has probably been discussed to death already, but maybe not: The point at which fancy graphing calculators become necessary (ie as in one's student career) is the point at which the calculator should be abandoned and Python employed. Just a thought ... delete at will ! -Charles --

[Edu-sig] Order of operations confusion

Hello All, Just thought I'd relay a rather interesting story: Last night I was having my son work-out a simple problem from a new little webapp that I coded up called MakeItTrue ( http://www.asymptopia.org/MakeItTrue.html ) which had 3 arbitrary variables embedded into a larger equation, and the

Re: [Edu-sig] CTL: Computer Thinking Language

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:02 PM, David MacQuigg macqu...@ece.arizona.edu wrote: I think the problem may be a need to avoid favoring one language over another.  Any time you make a proposal to use a specific language, you get immediate opposition from folks who favor another language. What

Re: [Edu-sig] Python 2.6.1 build problems

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Scott David Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org wrote: Arana Fireheart wrote: ... The second and currently un-resolvable issue is that the build fails to link in tkinter. I can't quite figure this one out, since I thought that this was part of Python. Is there

[Edu-sig] fracgen.py

Hi All, The recent discussion regarding fractions compelled me to dig-up a fraction problem generating script I wrote a couple years ago and post it in case anyone has use for it. The purpose of the script is to generate algebraic fraction problems. It might also make a decent programming

Re: [Edu-sig] CP4E in a third world country

Greetings Miguel, Sounds like fun down there in Honduras. I just visited Costa Rica with my kids earlier this summer, and ran into some Peace Corps tech teachers down there. Myself, I'm an RPCV (Kenya 1991-1993) and have been implementing the 3rd Peace Corps goal ever since by developing

Re: [Edu-sig] Suggestion for python learning

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:48 AM, David MacQuigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you really learn Python this way? Try writing some code after listening to a verbal explanation only. Even if you have amazing powers to visualize what you hear, the verbal description, even for something as

Re: [Edu-sig] College Board Cuts CS AP

I just tried to read the article and it says unauthorized on an otherwise white page! -Charles On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Vern Ceder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, what gets accepted and for what kind of credit is wildly variable from school to school... Even though I've taught it for

Re: [Edu-sig] College Board Cuts CS AP

if this one makes it through in one piece - if not reassemble manually. ) Vern Charles Cossé wrote: I just tried to read the article and it says unauthorized on an otherwise white page! -Charles On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Vern Ceder [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote