Yes many thanks for the Minecraft with Pi link.
@psf_snake tweeted about it too today -- and re a 111 line python chess
engine a student pointed me at.
Kirby
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Thank you all for the links pointing to Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi and
articles on how to control it with Python. That's not something I've tried
myself, but I have passed the links along to my friend.
David H
On Monday, March 23, 2015 7:41pm, "Francois Dion"
said:
[ http://www.raspb
http://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/getting-started-with-minecraft-pi/
http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2014/06/building-a-castle-in-minecraft-with-python/
Francois
El Mar 22, 2015, a las 10:23 PM, "David Handy"
escribió:
> This evening I had an interesting conversation with a very determined
> Give that 10-year old plenty of encouragement, but be ready to catch
> him when he falls. Write the Java for him, if necessary, but then
> show him the equivalent in Python.
>
Having the motive to master Minecraft is a good reminder that a lot
of us tackle a language as a means to an end not as
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:23 PM, David Handy wrote:
> This evening I had an interesting conversation with a very determined
> 10-year old boy who wants to learn programming in Java and nothing but Java.
> I told him that I recommend Python as a first programing language, because
> learning Python
http://pt.slideshare.net/rdonkin/minecraft-in-500-lines-with-pyglet-pycon-uk?next_slideshow=1
On Mar 22, 2015, at 9:23 PM, David Handy
mailto:da...@handysoftware.com>> wrote:
This evening I had an interesting conversation with a very determined 10-year
old boy who wants to learn programming in
This evening I had an interesting conversation with a very determined 10-year
old boy who wants to learn programming in Java and nothing but Java. I told him
that I recommend Python as a first programing language, because learning Python
is easier. But he was adamant. It's Java or nothing. Why?
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Mark Engelberg
wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:38 AM, kirby urner
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm not one of those who think you need to join warring Camp A (OOP) or
>> warring Camp B (FP) and then express loyalty to one by dissing the other.
>> Rather, play up the stren
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:38 AM, kirby urner wrote:
>
> I'm not one of those who think you need to join warring Camp A (OOP) or
> warring Camp B (FP) and then express loyalty to one by dissing the other.
> Rather, play up the strengths of both paradigms (I know Shiriam disputes
> that OOP is real
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Mark Engelberg
wrote:
> Kirby, have you ever looked at mathpiper? (http://www.mathpiper.org/) I
> know you have a strong interest in fusing math explorations with
> programming, so it seems like something that would be right up your alley
> -- sort of an accessi
Kirby, have you ever looked at mathpiper? (http://www.mathpiper.org/) I
know you have a strong interest in fusing math explorations with
programming, so it seems like something that would be right up your alley
-- sort of an accessible Mathematica intended for education. The docs
section also con
Checking the edu-sig archive, looks like indentation doesn't show this
paragraph was quoted by me not written by me:
"""
I think the best way to understand these criticisms is to take a look at
the language Pyret (pyret.org), a language that is being developed by
Shriram Krishnamurthi (one of the
Ruby isn't mentioned because it never made significant waves in the
educational community. Remember, the article is just about educational
language choices, not fashionable languages in general.
The bulk of the article is discussion of Python's "weaknesses":
> 1) Creating non-trivial data struct
Mark, thanks for the excellent reply on this topic. I was not aware of
Pyret, and this is really opening my eyes. It has been a few years since I
thought about the next step after Python. Ruby didn't add anything
fundamentally better.
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Mark Engelberg
wrote:
> On
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:33 AM, David MacQuigg
wrote:
> The first thing that got my attention was the banner text "Choosing Python
> is the modern equivalent of the old adage 'nobody ever got fired for
> choosing IBM'". If I were an unimaginative, risk-averse bureaucrat, just
> wanting to run w
The latest issue of Communications of the ACM (March 2015) has an article
titled "Python for Beginners" with a few points that surprised me.
The first thing that got my attention was the banner text "Choosing Python
is the modern equivalent of the old adage 'nobody ever got fired for
choosing IBM'
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