Re: [Edu-sig] New articles on Medium.... (not all by me :-D)

2017-03-22 Thread Wes Turner
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 12:19 AM, Wes Turner wrote: > > [...] > > > - https://k12cs.org/ > > - https://medium.freecodecamp.com/ > https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university#table-of-contents http://competency-checklist.appspot.com/ > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017

Re: [Edu-sig] New articles on Medium.... (not all by me :-D)

2017-03-22 Thread Wes Turner
> python3 From https://westurner.org/wiki/awesome-python-testing#python-2-python-3 : Python 2 <--> Python 3 * https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-porting * http://python3porting.com/ * `2to3`_, `six`_, `nine`_, `future`_ 2to3 ^ | Src:

Re: [Edu-sig] New articles on Medium.... (not all by me :-D)

2017-03-22 Thread kirby urner
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Charles wrote: > Any place for PDX Guild to expand operations and benefit from that? They > deserve it, and in a just world they should get a piece of that action. > They are the pioneers of the code school phenomenon. > I sent them a copy of

Re: [Edu-sig] New articles on Medium.... (not all by me :-D)

2017-03-22 Thread Charles
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:14 PM, kirby urner wrote: > > I'm responding to this separately, having checked the repo, screen shots > especially. I've always been impressed by your productivity and > portfolio. You're quite a talented coder in my book, bravo! > > Thank

Re: [Edu-sig] New articles on Medium.... (not all by me :-D)

2017-03-22 Thread kirby urner
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Charles wrote: > One last reflection: I’m now a long-term sub as a music teacher in the > same elementary school that both my children attended. Irrelevant except > that I love the school. I’ve never taught music and I’ve got up to nine >

Re: [Edu-sig] New articles on Medium.... (not all by me :-D)

2017-03-22 Thread kirby urner
Thanks for those thoughts and feedback Charles, on Medium as well. I'm still learning about how to use that technology. Finding other writings in the same ballpark, following and liking, also commenting, is how to develop more of a readership. I have several interconnected published manuscripts,

Re: [Edu-sig] New articles on Medium.... (not all by me :-D)

2017-03-22 Thread Charles
PS -- in my last months of k-12 teaching the best (commercial) software i've seen is "kahoot". It surely influenced my idea about a R-Pi Bingo Server ... this would be a great thing to reproduce as an Edu-FLS (FreeLibreSoftware) platform, IMO. On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Charles

Re: [Edu-sig] New articles on Medium.... (not all by me :-D)

2017-03-22 Thread Charles
Hi Kirby, just read your article on Medium. Interesting thoughts, as always. I read something the other day which pointed out that in Chinese high school calculators are not allowed … possibly ever? It seems like a no-brainer to me to eliminate calculators from the K-12 system entirely, but

[Edu-sig] New articles on Medium.... (not all by me :-D)

2017-03-22 Thread kirby urner
Useful summary of on-line Python 3 tutorials, starting with the one in docs.python.org itself: https://medium.com/@lockpaddy/10-resources-to-learn-python-3-9a735db7aff9#.mabvr7g8l Is it just me or am I sensing a strong pull towards Python 3, away from 2.x? My meditation, also on Medium,