read it more closely to give you some
more detailed feedback.
Cheers,
André
Thank you!
Al Sweigart
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the comments. Something that many online game servers provide
for chess, go, bridge...
Just a thought... I should read it more closely to give you some
more detailed feedback.
Cheers,
André
Thank you!
Al Sweigart
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http
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:34 PM, kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/6/19 kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
SNIP
PS: the Europython list is making me homesick for Vilnius,
My grandfather was from Vilnius. You
Summer of Code.
Toby
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School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University (Surrey)
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devices API although Dr. Keats
isn't sure how far they've come along with that.
Kirby
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You guys and kids are all so great. How would some of you like to
speak and do demos at a future PyCon? Next year will be in Chicago,
and for the year after that I am heading the bid to get it in the San
Francisco Bay Area. The other possibilities are Atlanta and Cleveland.
If you are interested,
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At Sun, 3 Aug 2008 20:03:03 -0700,
michel paul wrote:
In secondary math classes we often say Math is a language, but we really
don't teach it that way.
The closest we get to that is calling the comparison operators
Thank you. Presumably we could apply the same approach to teaching
elementary-school arithmetic algorithms, maze traversal algorithms,
and the like for One Laptop Per Child. I have suggested this to their
Education mailing list.
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:14 PM, DiPierro, Massimo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
How would you compare this turtle module with the TurtleArt activity
in Sugar? It is available in .deb and .rpm packages for Ubuntu,
Debian, and Fedora, and also in .xo bundles, installable with
xo-get.py. Sugar Labs is working with other Linux distributions to
make Sugar packages available as
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:15 AM, roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello
(i am rather new in python ...)
Have you looked at NumPy and SciPy yet? Or anything written using them?
i am about to start a course of physics and math for students aged
14-17 (high school)
and i am deeply interested
2008/10/17 michel paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
We should abandon the vision that physicists seek an ultimate mathematical
description of the universe since it is not obvious that it exists.
I disagree with this attitude. We can seek an ultimate mathematical
description, since it is not obvious that
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:06 AM, bob gailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Edward Cherlin wrote:
[snip]
As a teacher, I know very well what it means. Some representations are
easier to understand, or easier to work with, or easier to learn from.
Various thinkers, including Babbage, Whitehead
2008/10/19 kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Here's a pointer to some related writings @ Math Forum, which I used to tell
Arthur S. (this archive) was more like center ring in my circus, i.e.
where math teachers meet irrespective of caring about geek subculture,
computers etc.:
anywhere close to Portland. As you might imagine, I have a
hard time keeping up even just with what goes on in my home town.
Kirby Urner
Fine Grind Productions
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/10/19 kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Here's
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:20 PM, kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So once we agree we want some kind of computer lab, the question is, what
kind?
That's a pretty strong assumption, and one that the 1-1 computing
community would strongly take issue with. I haven't noticed much good
from
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:57 AM, David MacQuigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kirby,
This is very well written appeal, but in this mailing list, you may be
preaching to the choir. What I would like to see is a discussion of *why*
there is not more teaching of programming in high school. I can't
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:27 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm forwarding this, enqueued with Math Forum moderators, as it gives
some background perspective of potential utility to edu-sig
subscribers, plus indirectly expresses my gratitude to Stef Mientki
for his promising
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:16 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
Edward Cherlin's insistent pointing to the XO is helping turn some
wheels on my end...
It doesn't actually have to be an XO. We have projects forming up to
use Sugar on a Stick with diskless computers. That will allow us
2008/12/19 Warren Sande warren.sa...@rogers.com:
One of my favourite web comics, XKCD, has a great one today:
http://www.xkcd.com/519/
+1
I sent the link to some friend yesterday.
(You could, of course, substitute Python for Perl...)
Instead of Perl in 11th grade, iconic Turtle Art in
2008/12/23 michel paul mpaul...@gmail.com:
http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/obama-education
Computing education benefits all students, not just those interested in
pursuing computer science or information technology careers, said Bobby
Schnabel, chair of ACM's Education Policy
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Daniel Ajoy da.a...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:00:02 -0500, edu-sig-requ...@python.org wrote:
From: Edward Cherlin
2008/12/23 michel paul :
http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/obama-education
Computing education benefits all students
-requ...@python.org wrote:
From: Edward Cherlin
2008/12/23 michel paul :
http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/obama-education
Computing education benefits all students, not just those interested in
pursuing computer science or information technology careers, said Bobby
Schnabel, chair
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:18 AM, gerry_lowry (alliston ontario
canada) gerry.lo...@abilitybusinesscomputerservices.com wrote:
Edward Cherlin, in part: APL is coming.
NumPy is heavily influenced by APL, as are the math parts of Ada,
Common LISP, FORTRAN 90 and beyond, and all functional
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Ivan Krstić
krs...@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu wrote:
On Dec 25, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
Right, a nice Logo is the one missing piece of the programming
environments officially supported by OLPC
I talked to Walter (Bender) about a week ago,
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:37 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, lots of pro J sentiment on this list, including by me, author of
'Jiving in J' (got some help with typos from Kenneth, though I think
there're still a couple): http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/cp4e.html
There's a
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:09 PM, David MacQuigg
macqu...@ece.arizona.edu wrote:
I'm putting together a list of topics for a proposed course entitled
Programming for Scientists and Engineers. See the link to CS2 under
http://ece.arizona.edu/~edatools/index_classes.htm. This is intended as a
2009/2/11 michel paul mpaul...@gmail.com:
This is a pretty cool site: Project Euler.
It's a list of problems that can't be solved using mathematical cleverness
alone - they require programming.
Not so, according to the examples below.
After you solve a problem, you then get
access to the
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:30 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
So you're doing that in your head?
Not at all. I can do this example with paper and pencil, and I would
want a calculator or a log
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:02 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
I mean the Calculator activity in Sugar, or gcalctool.
Our use Pippy maybe?
We have lost the context of the discussion
Comments below. We can provide the authors with a great deal more
information on request.
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:02 PM, David MacQuigg macqu...@ece.arizona.edu wrote:
There is an interesting article in the latest ACM {Human Computing Skills:
Rethinking the K-12 Experience, Fletcher Lu,
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 2:14 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
One of our Wanderers (think tank in Portland) wrote:
I expect that teaching Python/Perl/Ruby/Java in the 2000s will be
viewed with the same scorn in the 2030's. The problem with flavor
of the month languages is that
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:40 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
We need a language-independent way of teaching programming concepts. I
have an idea for one based on Turtle Art, which represents
There is a fairly new mailing list,
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath, discussing
creation of a 4th-grade math book using the Sugar software for the
OLPC XO as a base. You are invited if you are interested to contribute
or even just to lurk.
--
Silent Thunder
http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2009/03/orbital-motion-in-python-and-turtleart.html
Orbital motion in Python and TurtleArt
Intended to demonstrate two things,
a) that programmable simulations are good ways for kids to learn
physics and maths
b) that the programmable block provides a way for kids
Your message text got stuck in an attachment, where I almost missed
it. I wonder what your mail system thinks it is doing? Comment below.
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 12:48 PM, John Posner jjpos...@snet.net wrote:
Sent today to python-list ...
Inspired by recent threads (and recalling my first
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:05 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm wondering what others on this list think of this non-standard use
of teaching when talking about programming a computer.
The authors say we're teaching the computer
I have a very simple take on this. It is an
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:07 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
As my grandmother might have said: ai yai yai
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081203103806AA4TSOq
I'm guessing Kay (XY? XX? -- not that I need to know) is a LISP and/or
Scheme head, by the looks of those
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Lloyd Hugh Allen chandraki...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't posted in a while -- forgot to reply-to-edu-sig :)
There is a long-running rwar between those who think that mailing
lists should have a reply-to set to the mailing list address, and
those who think that
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote:
In a message of Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:09:36 PDT, Edward Cherlin writes:
There is a long-running rwar between those who think that mailing
lists should have a reply-to set to the mailing list address, and
those who think
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:43 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
Gmail. No, source is not available. They do accept feature requests at
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=suggestions.cs
Once in a while I see that some feature I wanted made it in.
Laura
Of course the
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I am new to this list. I am working on an algebra course where teens will
create their own learning materials and share them as open educational
resources (OERs).
Welcome. I am working on a project to create
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote:
One note:
It is very important to teach your students how to read code. I think that
this is even more important that teaching them how to write code -- not
only will they spend more time reading code than writing code
Comment at end.
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote:
In a message of Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:49:17 PDT, Edward Cherlin writes:
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote:
One note:
It is very important to teach your students how
Comments interspersed.
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Scott David Daniels
scott.dani...@acm.org wrote:
Laura Creighton wrote:
One note:
It is very important to teach your students how to read code. I think
that
this is even more important that teaching them how to write code -- not
only
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Fahreddın Basegmez
mangab...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have been developing a programmable scientific visualization
tool/rapid game maker with wxPython for a while. I recently released
the first public beta version that works on windows only. Now, I am
going
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Daniel Ajoy da.a...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Maria Droujkova
Geogebra was created specifically for the type of projects I want to run. It
is easy enough to start, for kids. I find its specialization to be a
limiting factor, though - it would be nice if kids saw
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Gregor Lingl gregor.li...@aon.at wrote:
kirby urner schrieb
For those of you looking for a way cool use of Python's ReportLab, I
so far have permission to release this one example PDF flipbook
showing how geometry concepts might be communicated using this
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:53 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
Fuller tending to accept any contribution (he'd circulate a box after
some lectures, take home a pile of student papers) and then toss the
results to the world as leaflets out the back of his choo choo, while
running
I wrote a reply on the Web site. It is being reviewed by the editors
before posting.
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/6/28497-one-laptop-per-child-vision-vs-reality/comments
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:56 AM, gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada)
gerry.lo...@abilitybusinesscomputerservices.com
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:43 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I filed the following quick comment after viewing a six minute
tutorial on variables and values at ShowMeDo.
The video:
http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=6950010fromSeriesID=695
My comment:
idea that
I have to write up some lessons on how to start programming in Python
in the Sugar version of Turtle Art, where there are two programmable
tiles. One accepts a Python expression, and the other reads in a
Python file.
The easiest Hello, World program in Turtle Art uses the Print tile.
Just type in
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:08 AM, robertorobert...@gmail.com wrote:
hello,
i have managed an introductory math and programming course, mainly
based on python for the programming side;
participants came strictly from high schools;
i'd like to share the results with the community and collect
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:28 AM, robertorobert...@gmail.com wrote:
hello,
i am looking for materials, experiences etc. about using turtle module
in math, physics and related for middle or high school students
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Gravity.odt Alan Kay's third-grade
gravity lesson
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:36 PM, kirby urnerkirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to make another plug for including this title on the edu-sig home
page:
http://www.skylit.com/mathandpython.html
Ian thought it was too much a hybrid of CS and math, not an elegant
amalgamation, though I
We need to make sure that people in various programs can find such
resources. I will Wiki your repository at Earth Treasury and Sugar
Labs, and I am copying this to Stacy Reed, the Librarian Chick. Where
else can we list this and other resources?
Please be careful of CCs if you reply to this
I don't know the details on this issue, but I am aware of several more
general problems.
One is that nobody knows what CS is or should be. I got into it before
there were CS departments, from Foundations of Mathematics,
specifically Incompleteness and Undecidability and Non-Standard
Arithmetic.
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:27 AM, kirby urnerkirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Edward Cherlinecher...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
I am working on how to teach CS ideas in third grade using tools such
as Etoys Smalltalk, UCBLogo, and Turtle Art, all of which are
2009/9/27 Charles Cossé cco...@gmail.com:
Hi, this has probably been discussed to death already, but maybe not: The
point at which fancy graphing calculators become necessary (ie as in one's
student career) is the point at which the calculator should be abandoned and
Python employed. Just a
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:49 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/9/28 Brian Blais bbl...@bryant.edu:
trim
Just a month ago, a friend of mine who homeschools her children was asking
me about graphing calculators. Apparently the math curriculum she uses has
a number of
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:13 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
Since say 5000 years humans have devoloped the concepts of numbers,
calculations and
algebra. They have discovered, that calculations obey certain algebraic laws
like
a*(b+c) = a*b + a*c and the like. Finally they have
Could we develop a geometry which does not depend on the metaphysics
of real numbers, continuity, infinity? Or still have infinity, but
make it more like Poincare's, a direction (like a time axis).
There are vast realms of such geometries, going back to projective
geometries over finite
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Brian Blais bbl...@bryant.edu wrote:
On Sep 28, 2009, at 16:30 , Gregor Lingl wrote:
Brian Blais schrieb:
However, as I think
about it, I can not think of a single problem where I *needed* the
graphic calculator, or where it gave me more insight than I
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Phil Wagner pwag...@hightechhigh.org wrote:
Often I am asked for a quick demonstration about the power of Python,
sometimes for people with no computer science background. What can I show
them that doesn't take too much time but gets the point across that Python
Computer languages in use can be as different as FORTH, APL, LISP,
Smalltalk, C++, Python...In principle, any symbolic system that is
Turing-complete can serve as a general-purpose computer programming
language with a suitable compiler or interpreter.
Jean Sammet wrote a summary of all computer
Yes, you're on the right track. All of schooling is based on medieval
metaphors (such as the lecture, originally for purposes of dictation
in the days before printing) and the history of thought, instead of
the logic of the subject matter or of the reasons for learning
anything. We are still
FYI. Much loved in the APL community.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Curtis A. Jones curtis_jo...@ieee.org
Date: Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:34
Subject: Fwd: Donald McIntyre
To: apl...@listserv.acm.org
-- Forwarded message --
From: Roger Hui rhui...@shaw.ca
Date: Oct
My degree is in Math and Philosophy. Most of the Foundations of
Mathematics courses were in the Philosophy department back then,
including a lot of what turned into Computer Science.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:25, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been seeing some conversations aimed
Cards: You are right on the merits for combinatory math, but you will
run into strong cultural aversions.
Reverse string in place with new iterator: There is a great deal more
of this. In the 1980s Hewlett-Packard built an APL system around such
transformations in place and lazy evaluation rules,
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 22:20, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote:
In a message of Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:27:35 PST, Edward Cherlin writes:
Cards: You are right on the merits for combinatory math, but you will
run into strong cultural aversions.
Why? Especially when _dice_ seem
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 19:44, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote:
In a message of Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:37:54 PST, Edward Cherlin writes:
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 22:20, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote:
In a message of Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:27:35 PST, Edward Cherlin writes:
Cards: You
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:34, Brian Blais bbl...@bryant.edu wrote:
Hello,
I was just playing with the turtle module, and thought it was an interesting
way to augment the introduction to python (I teach college students, who
haven't had any programming). It's a great way to introduce
An old friend, ex-IBM, ex-Wall Street, is working on a new Open Source
APL which he and I intend to get into the Sugar education software for
OLPC. I can't tell you any more than that until he puts code out for
the public to test.
--
Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
Pascal's Triangle mod 2 is also a Sierpinski gasket fractal. This is
one of the Python examples in Pippy in the Sugar education software.
# Sierpinski triangles
import sys
size = 3
modulus = 2
lines = modulus**size
vector = [1]
for i in range(1,lines+1):
vector.insert(0,0)
vector.append(0)
I've been wishing for this. Thanks. I signed up for the mailing list.
It turns out that the Java Web Start software is not available for
Debian or Ubuntu Linux, so I can't join in tonight.
*{%{[
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:43, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote:
Wednesday, February
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 19:33, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I briefly blogged about our meeting last night.
http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2010/02/learning-on-line.html
Thank you.
I posted Ed Cherlin's Chinese + Arabic sig
Japanese/Urdu in language, but you are correct as to
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:45, John Posner jjpos...@optimum.net wrote:
[ cross-posting to edu-sig ]
Bruno (and anyone else interested) --
As I promised/threatened, here's the *start* of a write-up on properties,
aimed at non-advanced Python programmers:
Not bad. There are things we can improve. For example, a variable is
less like a nickname referring to one thing than a pronoun that can
refer to different things each time it is used. I do not have time
today for a complete review, but I would like to do it sometime soon,
in part because I have a
crediting of an interloper (something of a maverick that
guy -- never met him).
I mention all this by way of background, in that I cite him
in my Notes for Teachers for Pycon 2009 re spiraling FYI:
http://www.4dsolutions.net/presentations/py4t_notes.pdf
On another note, thanks to Edward
[sigh]
Do math tables in a math array language.
degrees =. i. 91 NB. 0..90
radians =. degrees * o. % 180
table =. |: degrees, 1 2 3 o./ radians
where
=. is assignment
i. creates a list of consecutive numbers starting at 0.
NB. is the comment marker
o. x is pi times x
% x is reciprocal of x,
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 09:33, Christian Mascher
christian.masc...@gmx.de wrote:
Edward Cherlin wrote:
[sigh]
Do math tables in a math array language.
degrees =. i. 91 NB. 0..90
radians =. degrees * o. % 180
table =. |: degrees, 1 2 3 o./ radians
Sorry, I don't know J (Kirby does
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 17:51, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry, I don't know J (Kirby does), but this is exactly the reason I prefer
Python. Readability counts (for me).
That's what they said to Fibonacci when he tried to explain why Arabic
numerals were better for math than
know that inside
my head I am not thinking about so general a situation, but I think I could
often communicate it better.
Andy
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 6:50 PM, David MacQuigg macqu...@ece.arizona.edu
wrote:
Edward Cherlin wrote:
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 09:33, Christian Mascher
2010/4/11 Lee Harr miss...@hotmail.com:
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.
It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and
graphics display area.
It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing
some programming concepts to beginning programmers.
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 21:52, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/4/11 Lee Harr miss...@hotmail.com:
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.
It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and
graphics display area.
I like the idea of using turtles to plot
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:36, roberto robert...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
I am more interested in reimplementing such examples in Turtle Art,
and in having a module to translate to Python automatically. Since TA
implements each
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:11, roberto robert...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:36, roberto robert...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
I am more
It frequently happens that the Computer Science Dept. uses Free
Software for almost everything, and everybody else uses proprietary
software. CS can't talk to the others effectively, because they are
just geeks. I have more hope for elementary schools.
There are exceptions, such as Moodle.
On
I think that learning to analyze sports statistics is the best
possible introduction to the math, which can then be applied to
politics. That plus poker was Nate Silver's path to starting
FiveThirtyEight.com.
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 20:02, Daniel Ajoy da.a...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 04:34, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
I like to see universities taking the lead in some way...
(they call it non-commercial), eating their own dog food.
Same thing with hospitals. They seem to not want to
develop much inhouse, even for research -- or maybe
Your generalized Fibonacci sequences and generalized Pascal's
Triangles are linear combinations of the standard sequences and
triangles with shifts.
m,n,m+n,m+2n, 2m+3n...
is the sum of the sequences
m,0,m,m,2m,...
0,n,n,2n,3n,...
and similarly, the coefficients of x, y, and z in this triangle
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 21:36, Vern Ceder vce...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
In chatting with Charlie Clark and others today, it came up that we
aren't doing as much as we might to promote the successes of Python in
education.
Do you have the OLPC XO Sugar software on your list? Almost all
Einstein probably did not say, Everything should be made as simple as
possible, but _no simpler_. However, somebody did, and somebody was
right. One of the biggest problems in teaching programming is the
constant pretense that we are not doing complicated mathematics, and
the resulting attempt to
I am a big fan of discovery learning, and thus down on anything that
interferes with discovery. I practice what I call defensive
documentation on such problems, as do some others. See for example,
The C Puzzle Book, and my Sugar Labs page
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable
We will
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 14:16, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
In calling something demented I'm coming off
the namespace used around genres of cartoon.
Cartoons I'd consider demented:
Pinky and the Brain
and their hosts, the Animaniacs
Ren and Stimpy
Teenage Aqua Hunger Force
2011/4/22 Lee Harr miss...@hotmail.com:
Hi;
I know some of you like exploring geometry with Python.
The latest Blender 2.57 includes a python add-on for generating
a huge list of different types of geometric solids.
This is huge progress. Back when Tron was made, there was only one
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 04:12, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
Groupoids, categories, rings (clock time), fields (modular
arithmetic), vector spaces, and algebras require a bit more thought,
but I am sure that they can be done.
I mentioned a few Lie Groups, but I omitted the name.
There are a great many such parametric formulae, such as
hypergeometric sequences and their sums. You can get very interesting
results by plotting the roots of a polynomial as the coefficients
vary, without ever letting two roots coincide. It is possible to
generate all knots and links in this
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 17:52, Gregor Lingl gregor.li...@aon.at wrote:
Am 01.06.2011 22:52, schrieb kirby urner:
Hey Jeff, your question about controlling the turtle's screen
might have been just the ticket in my attempts to control
chaos, namely G. Lingl's chaos.py, which demonstrates
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 16:59, Jeff Elkner j...@elkner.net wrote:
Hi All,
I'm working on an introductory CS book using Python with the turtle
module,
Under what license?
Can we talk about using Turtle Art in Sugar as a starting point? it
can call Python functions assigned to blocks,
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 18:56, Kirby Urner kur...@oreillyschool.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
Baseball stats and turtles? That's something I have been wishing for.
I think that the best way to interest children in probability and
statistics
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