Re: [Edu-sig] More Python in the Classroom

2006-02-23 Thread kirby urner
On 2/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kirby writes ->I was thinking of Arthur's suggesting to reinforce the distinction between 'print' and 'return'. The only thing I recall is an exchange with John Brawley that I reported here. A long time ago I  posted an URL to an essay on the

[Edu-sig] More Python in the Classroom

2006-02-23 Thread ajsiegel
Kirby writes - >I was thinking of Arthur's suggesting to reinforce the distinction between >'print' and 'return'. The only thing I recall is an exchange with John Brawley that I reported here. If I remember correctly, he was creating a VPython sphere in a fucntion, assigning a variable to the

[Edu-sig] More Python in the Classroom

2006-02-23 Thread kirby urner
So I taught Python to 8th graders again this morning, as I've been doing for the last 10-11 weeks.  I used the "dog theme", introducing a simple Dog class, per recent thread with Andre, in IDLE:class Dog:     def __init__(self, name):    self.name = nameand using it to create instances dog1, do