On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:18 PM, David MacQuigg <macqu...@ece.arizona.edu> wrote: > At 09:59 AM 12/13/2008 -0500, csev wrote: > >>I generally do not like IDLE - it uses a socket which can get messed >>up, bugs in the student's code seem to mess up the IDE, when a program >>needs to open a data file - it is hard to force IDLE into a known >>directory.
Path issues are endemic to computer world, but since filesystems are trees and trees are mathy data structures... Seems schoolish math should have more talk of trees, including DOM. I know path issues in Java have resulted in some hair tearing in corporate cube farms, lots of premature baldness probably. << GOOD ADVICE >> > I know there are better IDE's available, but I keep coming back to IDLE. It > does what I need without a lot of clutter. > > -- Dave Yeah, ditto. So convenient, a great battery included. At the very least I want my editing canvas able to show not-Latin-1 characters, but that's almost any GUI editor these days, including a lowly Ubuntu terminal window running a Python shell. Here I'm providing some SQL-related math-oriented scaffolding for computer algebra students (probably redundant to call it that, might shorten to just algebra i.e. puzzle-solving algorithmic stuff aka gnu math...). http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/django_math.txt (also introduces regexps) Related screen shots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157...@n00/3118999641/ ( note url: mvp = most valuable player ) http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157...@n00/3119826690/sizes/o/ ( note url: .../mathy/trig/sin?angle=30 ) We might spend up to three weeks on something like this in the envisioned charters, e.g. tecc-alaska.org . Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
