[Edu-sig] Python at the University of São Paulo

2013-03-19 Thread Jeff Elkner
Luciano Ramalho stopped by at the Pycon sprint to tell me that the University of São Paulo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_S%C3%A3o_Paulo) recently adopted Python in its Introductory CS program. I told him I would pass this good news along to the edu-sig, and invited him to join us on

[Edu-sig] Big thanks to Naomi Ceder for putting together the EDU Summit!

2013-03-19 Thread Jeff Elkner
We all owe a big thank you to Naomi Ceder for all the work she put in organizing the EDU Summit. After spending years at Pycons meeting with the between 5 and 10 people at the conference interested in Python in Education over a dinner, it was exciting indeed to see 90+ people this year. Thanks,

Re: [Edu-sig] Big thanks to Naomi Ceder for putting together the EDU Summit!

2013-03-19 Thread Andrew Harrington
+1 Andy On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Jeff Elkner j...@elkner.net wrote: We all owe a big thank you to Naomi Ceder for all the work she put in organizing the EDU Summit. After spending years at Pycons meeting with the between 5 and 10 people at the conference interested in Python in

[Edu-sig] online coding?

2013-03-19 Thread Karine Laidley
Dear Python users, I wanted to check with you if you know of a good site that allows students to submit Python code to be checked for correctness. I know there is a codebat site but I found it limited in what it offers. Ideally, I want to offer students problems to solve from simple print

Re: [Edu-sig] online coding?

2013-03-19 Thread Andre Roberge
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Karine Laidley k.laid...@amsacs.orgwrote: Dear Python users, ** ** I wanted to check with you if you know of a good site that allows students to submit Python code to be checked for correctness. I know there is a codebat site but I found it limited in

Re: [Edu-sig] Big thanks to Naomi Ceder for putting together the EDU Summit!

2013-03-19 Thread Naomi Ceder
I can honestly say that it was my pleasure... this realized a dream I'd had for a few years. Look for some new developments from the summit, and let's keep up the contacts with all facets of the Python/education communities. And yes, I am planning to do it again next year, so if you attended

Re: [Edu-sig] online coding?

2013-03-19 Thread Rakesh Barve
Hi I am not an expert but one recent development is dynamic languages such as Python can now be interpreted and run inside browsers, making it possible to do the below kind of stuff as well as execution with no need of servers. One such example seems to be