[Edu-sig] after-school python, age 11+

2008-08-19 Thread Jeremy Gray
Hi all, This is my first post to edu-sig, and its sort of long. In a nutshell: a) I have developed and posted a few new material for kids getting started with programming, e.g., for an after-school club, at http://afterschoolpython.pbwiki.com/ Its free (no advertising ever, open-source recommende

Re: [Edu-sig] after-school python, age 11+

2008-08-21 Thread Jeremy Gray
thanks Gregor, this is very good to know! I plan to get into using turtle graphics down the road, as I like it so much. I'll definitely plan to work with the version to be released with 2.6 --Jeremy On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Gregor Lingl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerem

Re: [Edu-sig] Renaming PyWhip...

2010-02-23 Thread Jeremy Gray
or depending on the intended audience, maybe something small snackable and whimsical, like BiteIntoPy or ItsyBitsyBitesOfPy? --Jeremy On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Andre Roberge wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Jeff Elkner wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Andy Harrington and I will be

Re: [Edu-sig] Renaming PyWhip...

2010-02-24 Thread Jeremy Gray
this is a good conversation to have. my first though on hearing "whip" is Indiana Jones. I happen to be a white male (of a certain generation I guess.) I'm also an experimental psychologist / cognitive neuroscientist, with an interest in social psychology. there is overwhelming evidence that peopl

Re: [Edu-sig] Confused how teach geometry and importance of teaching geometry in 21st century.

2010-03-25 Thread Jeremy Gray
well, there's future usefulness and practicality to motivate your homeschoolers. and there's also in-the-moment fun, beauty, and joy of doing it. check out Strogatz's recent New York Times column: "I bet I can guess your favorite math subject in high school. "It was geometry. "So many people I’v

Re: [Edu-sig] programming skills and IQ tests..

2010-05-05 Thread Jeremy Gray
Hi Jurgis, being edu-sig, I'll send this to the list and not just you personally, despite it having somewhat low actual python content. I teach at grad and undergrad level, and do research into individual differences in self-control, and sometimes use IQ tests (see http://www.yale.edu/scan/) pyth

Re: [Edu-sig] What do you use for making presentations of a scatterplot of data

2011-09-15 Thread Jeremy Gray
matplotlib is pretty good, including documentation and examples, http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ import matplotlib, pylab x = [...] # list or numpy.array y = [...] color = [...] pylab.scatter(x, y, s=40, c=colors) # s = size, c = color vector pylab.show() On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:31 AM, La