On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:44 AM, kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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We mostly focus on the relevant mathematics such as how does when
beget rotation among a nest of vectors, but instead of silly
hamster-brained calculators (such as those from Texas Instruments) we
use real computers
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 4:59 PM, kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Before I show off what I consider to be a fun and useful IDLE font,
suitable for future classes, I'd like to poll other subscribers as to
whether they do anything unusual in the fonts department, either for
the
OK, so here it is Monday, and my font of choice for future classes,
for projecting especially, is Akbar font, patterned after the
handwriting of Matt Goening.
Um, Groening.
Plus I wanted to extol one of the virtues, which is Akbar isn't
messing up my Chinese characters either, here's a link
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 3:29 PM, David MacQuigg
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I have tried a few of the dozens of fonts in IDLE, but found none better than
the default Fixedsys. This must be the one they optimized for IDLE. In
other tools, like TextPad, I prefer Courier New, but it is
I also show students how to change fonts and colors - and like you say, they
LOVE doing it. But other than to tell them to be careful in changing syntax
coloring, as you don't want to lose useful distinctions of keywords and so
on, I don't really do anything special with it. I'll be interested
When I first start a Python class, e.g. for Saturday Academy, we go to
the configure IDLE screen. I often do this while projecting, as I'm
also blowing up the projected font to something more pedagogically
large (suitable for reading from the back row).
Understandably, once students see they're
