On Mon, 31 Jul, 2006 at 11:04PM +0100, Michael spake thus: > Hi James, > > I'd like to second the request to see what your syllabus looks like. This is > partly because whilst I work in BBC R&D, I'm currently looking to build a > collaboration with Manchester University (I went to university there, and by > chance they're doing work that meshes with my research area), and there's > been questions of Python's accessibility. > > If you're willing to share more details about your course, lesson plan and > notes, I'm sure there's other places that would be really interested...
Sorry. I did try, and messed it up. I assumed the list did reply-to munging, stupidly, when it doesn't. So, the parent post got a private reply which I'm copy/pasting here, with some more info. %These first two lectures use the turtle from the interpreter. We %start setting the scene for later ideas, such as functions and loops, %by pointing out the limitations of typing out all of the commands to %draw a spiral, say. \item [Lecture 1] Getting Started. \item [Lecture 2] Python Basics. \item [Lecture 3] Boolean Algebra. \item [Lecture 4] Choice. \item [Lectures 5-6] Repetition: Recursion. %By now, they're drawing koch and dragon curves \item [Lecture 7] Repetition: Iteration. \item [Lecture 8] State. \item [Lectures 9-10] Compound Types. \item [Lecture 11-12] Searching and Sorting. %They have seen functions already, but they were introduced without %fuss, so they never felt threatened by them. Now they hear a lot more \item [Lecture 13-14] Functions and Modules. \item [Lecture 15] Input / Output. \item [Lectures 16-18] Object Oriented Python. \item [Lectures 19-20] Python Extensions. % And by now, they're writing games. Frogger, space invaders, % allsorts. The number of students that have become engrossed with % programming at this point is unheard of at Coventry. Whole clusters % of people appreciating each others' code. %% Plus two extra lectures on language transfer Sorry it's in LaTeX markup, but it made it clear where comments end and lecture topics begin. > Best Regards (and congrats on the review!) Thanks! James > Michael. > > On Monday 31 July 2006 13:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > This last academic year, we used Python for the first time in our > > introductory programming modules. > > > > This is in place of Java (horrible first language, IMNSHO). > > > > It went VERY well. We've just had our external examiner's report > > and I got so excited, I blogged it and then ran here to yell about > > it. > > > > http://blog.dis-dot-dat.net/2006/07/we-officially-rock.html > > > > :) > > > > James > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
