Hi Nick, I think it's an excellent idea. It's a great way to connect with the shell lesson which is typically taught before Python. I find many learners see the shell as a bit of separate world from the GUI tools and making that connection can help break the shell vs GUI dichotomy.
Do you typically teach with Jupyter Notebooks (the norm) or with a different Python IDE? Another way you can achieve what you've suggested is by using Jupyter's ability to export just the Python code from a notebook and then run that use "python export.py" from the shell. Cam >>> nick james <[email protected]> 11/05/16 6:43 AM >>> Hi, I've had a quick look through the archive looking for killer objections to the idea of editing a file, say scratch.py, then switching to a console window and doing 'python scratch.py'? This MO doesn't seem to be deprecated or recommended; I'd be interested to hear comments or pointers to discussions I've missed. Nick J _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
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