First, thanks to Andy, John and Kirby for responding--I no longer feel alone
with my concerns about the namespace issues.
Is there somewhere I can read up on these issues (other than the link to the
Edu-sig archives that Any mentioned)? Before I ask I usually search the net a
lot, but I didn't find much documentation on using IDLE in an educational
setting. It would be nice if there was a tutorial that would cover the
"gotchas" and also give advice to people considering using IDLE....
Curious,
Richard
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From: kirby urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Andy Judkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 8:44:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Using IDLE with students
The subprocess idea is important I agree.
Also, psychologically, we would like students to see putting code in
a module as "canning for later" i.e. there's a strong prejudice against
thinking of the current session namespace as containing anything
vital to the operations of the module. Picturing emailing the code to
a distant user who has never once booted Python is another mental
exercise one might use.
Kirby
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