Grégoire Dooms wrote: >Hello, >next friday I'll give a one hour hands-on Python introduction to our >students in second year of Bsc in Computer Science. >The course is part of a "tools class" (other courses in this class are >about svn, latex and so on). >They already know Java and Oz. > >The first objective of the course is to arm them with shell scripting >tools but I would like to convince them to continue >learning/using/loving it for other tasks too. > >I think I will basically do this (10-15 minutes per item) : >- language syntax >- read/write files, os.listdir and glob.glob >- os.system, os.popen, urllib.urlopen >- online documentation and other resources > > Just suggest that you include in "documentation" the kind of questions one can answer for oneself from the interactive prompt. I actually find it relatively rare to need to go to the formal docs. dir(..) seems to answer a very decent % of the kinds of questions I tend to run into in practice - together with a measure of trial and error from the prompt.
Art >Do you have ideas of subjects/features I could show them ? Or useful >resources ? >-- >Grégoire Dooms > > >_______________________________________________ >Edu-sig mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > > > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
