Hi Michel,
We need a webpage with testimonials like this from former students. If
you don't have a good place for it, I'll start a page on PyKata. (Yes,
we are pretty well settled on that name now.)
And here I was thinking PyKata was for math and science students only.
Bosh!! We can have lesson plans tailored for anyone. I'll be that
teacher at Pratt can come up with some really good exercises for his
animation course.
-- Dave
michel paul wrote:
Just received this email from a former student earlier this week, and
it really made my day. It's an excellent falsification of an argument
I was being given last year that Python in math classes MIGHT be OK
for really motivated math students likely to major in some STEM
discipline but that it would be tangential otherwise. HA! No so!
This girl was an artist, a good student, but definitely not going to
be a math major. However, having learned some Python in her math
class was a plus for her in her college animation course!
Since Python is a general purpose language, it opens up all kinds of
other doors, not just mathematical ones.
And let's be realistic - is she ever going to have to remember or use
any of the things we studied in FST? I doubt it. More than likely
the most useful thing she got from that course was how to think in Python.
- Michel
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Dear Mr Paul,
I had your FST class last year. I am going to the Pratt Institute in
Brooklyn, and guess what, my scripting for Animation course is in
PYTHON!! I thought that would be fun for you to hear, and now I have
the advantage in the class for already having some experience with it!
Anyway, I hope things are looking up for you and your innovative
intentions for upgrading my old high school.
--
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