[ Pursuant to: http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2007/07/sa-8144-day-one.html
] I thought I'd do this one in a more premeditated style, outlining my lesson plan for the day, then following up later with a brief report on how I'd deviated from the script, how it all went. That won't be right after class, as I need to report for duty at another job in the early PM, where I've been nominated within a new grant proposal that just *might* involve MySQL and Python. We'll know more in November. Aside (recalling EuroPython 2007): I learned a lot about Pylons from that guy from the Ukraine (the one who uses Mako, hosts a blog site). Now they're saying TurboGears is moving to it, along with SQLAlchemy out the back end (lots of peak interest in the session on Canonical's Storm, just why SQLAlchemy wasn't "mature enough" for Canonical -- I protest "innocent bystander" on that one, not having used either yet (the MySQL keynoter seemed somewhat amused we're so in to our object-relational mappers these days)). My aim is to dive into Python as a language, less context and history, by means of 2-level scaffolding: stickworks.py, introduced in the Showmedo series, and polyhedra.py on top of that. Both get imported to menu-driven demo mods, so you *could* say 3-level, but I'm going to start in the IDLE shell importing stuff just from the first two levels (giving you a capable Vector and Edge, plus some canned data organizing these into familiar enough wireframes (we already talked Icosahedra on the first day)). Get used to low level vector arithmetic & graphics against an XYZ backdrop, in the opening hours. Pythonic Math features a one pass approach, straight to vectors per http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/numeracy1.html By the time we get to viztoyz, povtoyz and x3dtoyz, they'll already be fluent readers of basic Python grammar, complete with classes, functions & generators, and data structures. And this is only Day Two. But these aren't your usual students: a self selecting bunch willing to do something hard in the summer, in a college context, with some Silicon Forest weirdo named Kirby Urner, just back from Vilnius ("where's that again?"). Kirby PS: up early, with a living room full of kids sleeping, so off to the local breakfast nook, but it's closed, because we only *pretend* to be working class in this neighborhood (Richmonders might straggle in from b'fast around 7 AM earliest -- about now in fact, so time to return). _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
