On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Chalmer Lowe <chalmer.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Team: > > The Python Education Summit is on again this year at the PyCon in Portland. > > Greetings Chalmer, please send me an invitation if you would. I missed the two Montreal Pycons however I'm a resident of Portland and already registered for the coming one, so it'd be a missed opportunity to miss out on your PythonEDU Slack Team planning. I've not submitted any talk proposals so far. Having been fortunate enough to present quite a bit in the past, at Pycons and OSCONs in particular, I'm still referencing / footnoting those presentations as evidence of what I'm up to and where I'm going -- in case collaboration is an option. These days, I think in terms of "lambda and delta calculus" as the two flavors of math we offer to teens, but we don't brand that way (with the Greek letters). Delta Calc is regular Calculus, which dominates the high school math experience whereas Lambda Calc is "computer science" (or "gnu math" as I sometimes call it). Some students might appreciate more sense of at least two ways to go, with the option to swirl them together. I'd like to get to know more of the people planning on coming to Portland in 2016. What I was saying on Chipy last night, where we were talking about LISP family languages, is I don't see FP (functional programming) and OO (object oriented) as either / or, and would myself like to keep spiraling deeper into a Python - Jython - Java - Clojure circle that eats its own tail. One needs a lot of marbles for all that and I've maybe lost one or two over the years -- but I believe that even late in life, new marbles may be acquired. :-D I've been on edu-sig a long time, having hopped on the Python bandwagon around version 1.6. I'm interested in 3D graphics from a philosophical point of view and was drawn, like the late Arthur Siegel of PyGeo fame [1], to Visual Python (vpython.org). Quite a bit of my Python-in-education writing is been in that domain (VRML, ray tracing... this new book by Popko called Divided Spheres, billed as a primer, nails the domain pretty well ). Here in Portland we have an institution called Saturday Academy for highly motivated kids wanting to do extra-curricular work, and my blogs are have lots of first person accounts of my sharing Python through that school (not a full time job, pays a pittance). In that context, I developed a course called Martian Math [2] which is core to a four-aspect curriculum I share as Digital Mathematics, though I've come nowhere close to achieving the fame of some others doing that. [3] I look forward to meeting you in 2016. Kirby [1] http://python.6.x6.nabble.com/arthur-siegel-has-passed-away-td2108619.html [2] http://www.4dsolutions.net/satacad/martianmath/toc.html [3] https://newrepublic.com/article/124750/man-will-save-math
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