Guido wrote: > Our plan has three components: > > * Develop a new computing curriculum suitable for high school and college > students. > * Create better, easier to use tools for program development and analysis. > * Build a user community around all of the above, encouraging feedback > and self-help. > > These components come together in the scientific exploration of the role of > programming in > next generation computing environments. > > We intend to start with Python, a language designed for rapid development. We > believe that > Python makes a great first language to learn: Unlike languages designed > specifically for > beginners, Python is also the choice of many programming professionals. It > has an active, > growing user community which has already expressed much interest in this > proposal, and > we expect that this will be a fertile first deployment ground for the > teaching materials > and tools we propose to create. During the course of the research we will > evaluate Python > and propose improvements or alternatives.
Please forgive me. I know very little about the history of this forum so I have a small question: Which mailing list should I be subscribed to in order to participate in discussion regarding the component of the plan: "Develop a new computing curriculum suitable for high school and college students." ? There are political considerations which interact with any goals that involve the development of high school and college curricula and if [email protected] is not the place to discuss them I fear I may be in the wrong place! Thank you! :-D - antoine -- "Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure." - Melvin Conway _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
