(Apologies to Ivan for sending him a message directly rather than to the list which I meant to do. André)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andre Roberge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/9/26 Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] PyCon 2009 - Call for proposals To: Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > PyCon '09 will be opening for talk proposals shortly; see below. We'd love > to have some great talks on Python in education, so please don't be shy! > > Cheers, > > Ivan Krstić > Chair, PyCon 2009 Program Committee > > Rising up to Ivan's challenge... After missing last year's Pycon, I have been hoping of going this year, and talk about Crunchy. There are many aspects I could cover and was wondering what people would be most interested in. For example: 1. using Crunchy's doctest feature as a teaching tool. (including an experimental "exam mode" soon to be incorporated in Crunchy's trunk). 2. using Crunchy's unittest feature as a teaching tool. (unittest mode was implemented this summer as part of Google SoC) 3. using the "code analyzer" feature to provide feedback to students. (again from this summer's SoC; using pylint or pyflakes or pychecker). 4. using the simple interface to pdb (soon to be incorporated in the trunk) 5. using a mini-language environment (Karel the robot/rur-ple) 6. using the Croquant (a MoinMoin extension) and Crunchy in combination to create educational resources. etc. I could give a talk that would be a survey of all that's available in Crunchy (version 1.0 should be out before the new year) or go in depth on a couple of topics. Alternatively, I could go and give an in-depth look as how to write a simple (and a not-so-simple) plugin for Crunchy, extending its capabilities... Any comment/suggestions/things you'd like to see? André P.S. For those that understand French, Florian Birée gave a presentation that included many of the new features of Crunchy (some of which where mentioned above) at Toulouse France; this presentation (55 minutes) has been recorded on video and is available at http://toulibre.org/Videos (2nd from the bottom). _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
