Having listened to Yarko's proposal, I'm newly embolden to float a "teaching Python" balloon.
We imbue Python teaching with more socialist realism ala Stalinist period, but in parody, Monty Pythonic. http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-developments.html (I think we've all seen this poster). Instead of Turtle Graphics, we have Tractor Graphics. A subclass of tractor called CropCircle does the Mandelbrot Set in fields of ASCII. http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/5646223789/in/set-72157625646071793 The fun part is I already have the source code running on O'Reilly School of Technology servers, and documented on edu-sig. Anyway, I should try it out as a lightning talk someplace. In fact, I might keep it to that even for Pycon, though I could easily go for longer. Pycons tend to be less education oriented and more business track how we go fast in the fast lane type stuff. I'm more a slow moving truck on a steep grade kinda mover, like the one you pass in the "dangerous road" commercials (Mitsubishi campaign -- saw on LCD yesterday at Claudia's (watching baseball)). Kirby _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland
