Paul D. Fernhout wrote: > To somewhat address the original "Tips" question, and to address a genuine > issue of computer literacy as GNU/Linux rises in dominance, and to address > this issue of mastering multiple levels of abstraction, perhaps kids and > even some teachers could be encouraged to make a tiny GNU/Linux > distribution to make a Python interpreter shell that boots from on a > diskette or USB stick or CDROM, and creates a RAM disk for classroom > experiments. It isn't that hard. > See: > http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/ [has one already] > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ [general instructions] > Then you would have a custom Python which would be useful for wandering > faculty (assuming the admins let you reboot the machine, and it was > configured to allowing booting from removable media).
Well, you could also just include Python without the OS ;) I think that would be easier. Has anyone tried Movable Python (http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/movpy/)? It's only for Windows, but I assume the technique is mostly portable (though some of the libraries are not so easy, I imagine, like wxPython). Anyway, I'm sure you could fit Python for several OS's onto one CD plus some useful libraries, and save some time doing setup, which is otherwise a great way to waste a lot of class time. Has anyone put together such a bundle? Or maybe it's already out there, even if written for other reasons. -- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
