> My curriculum is more plane than plain, and gives some weight to the > point that 3 points uniquely determine one. But that is a different > story entirely.
At this point I'm willing to just watch you and your crew (?) steer as you will, flying the Python Nation flag, the CP4E banner, both or neither -- your call. I don't want your help steering my ship, no. I wouldn't consider you qualified in any way, given your strong bias against our late captain. I prefer a more congenial working atmosphere, like I have today. So if we can cut down on the noise level: I promise to not mention __ribs__ on this edu-sig too often, since mostly I'm teaching Python live, face to face, in real classrooms, and can do it there with wild abandon. Observing faculty tend to see merit in my approach and adopt some of its elements (maybe the __ribs__, maybe not -- their call). However, if some new subscriber comes along and asks "how do you handle special name methods?" I'll likely pop up and say: I use this __rib__ mnemonic and teach it quite early as we require familiarity with operator overriding to implement our vector type, our integers modulo N type, our other math object types (but before that, we do more warm fuzzy stuff, with Dog and Monkey, subclasses of Mammal (and they have ribs too, e.g. __init__ and __repr__)). Primitive collection types also have them, as do the number types (float, int, decimal...). You, in turn, should feel free to peddle your obscure and outmoded ideas about geometry, which I'm sure some will appreciate, but quite frankly, I'm not a Euclidean (even if I respect him, and use "his" algorithm -- it's his axioms I don't really need nor make extensive use of (which does *not* mean I have to keep my hands off the trig, so don't try that again (unless you want more noise))). Where I think we have something in common is neither of us just wants to exclusively focus on legal minors, small people too young to vote. I love 'em, but Python is for grownups too. So if you're aiming your geometry at an adult clientelle, then we're likely to overlap in the region of VPython, where already I'm famous for Hypertoons (a big hit at Pycon and OSCON), and for First Person Physics (my main link to Bruce Sherwood and Ruth Chabay is through Bob Fuller emeritus, University of Nebraska (a different Fuller, and a different kind of genius)). Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
