Re: [Edu-sig] Beautiful sample programs?

2009-09-28 Thread kirby urner
Hi Hélène -- Yes I recall your discussions. You may already have checked out some of my Python-related writings here: http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/cp4e.html A backdoor straight to my code, if you don't want to dig through any essays is: http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/ One thing I

Re: [Edu-sig] Beautiful sample programs?

2009-09-28 Thread Gregor Lingl
Hi Hélène, I'd like to point you to a suite of sample scripts that use Python's turtle module. You can find it here: http://python-turtle-demo.googlecode.com It contains a demo-viewer turtleDemo.py that lets you inspect the source code of the example scripts and execute them. So you get an

Re: [Edu-sig] Beautiful sample programs?

2009-09-28 Thread Helene Martin
Hi, Thanks for the suggestion -- I'm familiar with that project and have really enjoyed showing it off to the students. It's a really great package. What I'm looking for is more of a 'real-world' example. I know students at some point get burned out looking at and creating nifty programs for

[Edu-sig] Beautiful sample programs?

2009-09-27 Thread Helene Martin
Hello, As some of you know, I teach high school classes in Seattle. Students have been loving Python so far! They've been able to dive right in and get some interesting results. I was wondering whether any of you had suggestions for Python programs to look at, dissect, extend and emulate. I'm