These are great pieces of work. I'm in the process of integrating
friendly-tracebacks into Mu.
N.
On 10/05/2019 23:49, Andre Roberge wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> For the past few weeks I have been working on two projects that may
> potentially be of interest to you.
>
> The first project is
Hi Peter,
I have a draft ready for this process, but obviously not sent it to get
the bounces from the email address.
I've bcc'd a couple of people who may be able to look into the problem
with the email address to which they're asking us to send ideas.
Best wishes,
Nicholas.
On 29/01/2019
I'm currently working on this: https://codegrades.com/
This is still very early stages.
N.
On 25/01/2019 01:35, Charles Severance wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am working with a group of college professors at small schools and
> developing a program to help them teach programming to non-programmers.
Important to note... this is just a draft document that is yet to be
ratified (according to my French Pythonista friends).
On 15/11/2018 14:35, Jacqueline Kazil wrote:
> https://twitter.com/nnja/status/1062621193696612352
>
>
> ___
> Edu-sig mailing
This is great! A quick question: where / when?
N.
On 18/07/18 08:51, René Dudfield wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for a small group of 10-30 people who are interested in
> contributing to the pygame project as part of a class or user group meeting.
>
> Rather than a normal user group meeting
Here in the UK, most examination boards suggest the use of Python for
text based programming exercises at GCSE (16yo) and A-level (18yo) exams.
N.
On 10/07/18 10:24, Aidis Stukas wrote:
> Are there any countries that teach Python in high school.
>
> Also, is it allowed to use Python in
o.
back to mu - Yes, it is now my pick for editor to install and use.
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 10:11 AM, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote:
On 03/07/18 16:04, Andre Roberge wrote:
I do agree with what you write ... but, at the same time, I've been
struggling to define appropriate categories. Some soft
On 03/07/18 16:04, Andre Roberge wrote:
I do agree with what you write ... but, at the same time, I've been
struggling to define appropriate categories. Some software can be
designed for use by (young) adult beginners but not for young children.
(For example: anything that will rely
On 03/07/18 15:27, Andre Roberge wrote:
* Mu (https://codewith.mu/). Primarily intended for young learners and
hobbyists.
Nope.
I'm the author of Mu. It's for beginner programmers of all levels (as it
says so on the website). Beginner programmer is a "stage" not an age. ;-)
The design
Kirby,
Thank you for your kind words.
Andrew has just signed a book deal to be delivered in about a year's
time. His task: to write about what it's like to learn to code. We're
regularly in touch via email, he's "up for it" (as we say in Britain)
and sponge-like in his desire to learn about
Hi Stephen,
It's great to hear that colleagues in Ireland are taking such positive
steps. Here in the UK, your countryman, Alan O'Donohoe, has been at the
centre of the coding/teaching renaissance (look him up, he's awesome --
say I told you to get in touch).
Here's the thing, the Python
Hi Otavio,
See my answers below..! :-)
N.
On 21/02/18 18:46, Otavio Silva wrote:
> Dear All,
> I am starting a group of Fathers and Mothers who want to teach their
> kids code, we decided to start wit python. None of us is a professional
> in coding, so we think we will need a lot of help...
>
Briefly, https://www.codeclub.org.uk/ might be a good template.
:-)
N.
On 31/03/17 17:01, Jaaba wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm just a newbie in this forum . I was told to contact this group from
> Eva, from Python Software Foundation (PSF)
>
> We have been doing a computer club kind of program for
There are lots of teachers on this list! Some of whom will be at PyCon.
What exactly are your requirements? Are you expecting an instructor to
deliver the existing curriculum or come up with their own? Is this
person going to be solely responsible for the workshop, its format and
the resources?
Hi Carl,
On 13/07/16 23:23, Carl Smith wrote:
> Just tried contributing to Mu, and was ridiculed by Nicholas Tollervey,
> so wont be bothering with it now.
>
If that's how I made you feel, them I'm sorry.
Nevertheless, I'm trying to work out how asking for evidence could be
construed as
On 23/06/16 06:01, kirby urner wrote:
> Best wishes to the UK tomorrow, whatever its fate. God bless and all that.
Thank you.
It's been a nasty campaign with terrible examples of closet racism (see
the UKIP poster) and plenty of lies, damn lies and statistics thrown about.
The next 24h are
On 22/06/16 18:45, kirby urner wrote:
>
> Quiet around here, because the action is all on Twitter I think.
>
> Anyway, more blogged followup.
>
> I still can't find a Micro:Bit for sale in this neck of the woods, like
> at Fry's (our electronics superstore) or SurplusGizmos.
>
>
Hi Folks,
Happy new year everyone!
Apologies for cross-posting. Here's hoping it's worth it.
We're getting close to a version 1.0 of MicroPython for the BBC's
micro:bit device (a small programmable device that'll be given out to
the UK's 11 year olds later this year - that's around 1 million
Hi Folks,
Many apologies for cross posting.
Here's some good news - we've finally been given permission to
open-source our work on the BBC micro:bit
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/microbit) and be a bit more
vocal and public about what we're doing. Put simply, around 1 million of
I would take this sort of study with a pinch of salt...
The quality and skill of the teacher as well as the aptitude and
learning context of the students has a huge impact on the end result.
There are numerous studies that show this. To my mind this invalidates
the "use method X or Y in subject
Hi Folks,
A quick heads up: today we're announcing the fourth annual PyCon UK
education track today. Details can be found here:
http://www.pyconuk.org/education/ Register here:
http://www.pyconuk.org/register/
Are you a teacher? Do you know any teachers..? Teacher's continuing
professional
Hi,
In case you missed it, my FREE short report Python in Education was
published yesterday by O'Reilly. There's an extract from it here (on
O'Reilly Radar):
radar.oreilly.com/2015/04/five-reasons-why-python-is-a-popular-teaching-language.html
You can download the complete work in various
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Hi,
Today the BBC announced the MicroBit (part designed by PSF fellow
Michael Sparks) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31834927.
About 1 million of these small programmable devices will be given away
to 11-12 year olds starting their secondary
in the MicroBit and to get our hands on a MicroBit
board?
Cheers!
Luciano -- author of Fluent Python (O'Reilly, 2014)
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032519.do
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Nicholas H.Tollervey
nt...@ntoll.org wrote: Hi,
Today the BBC announced the MicroBit
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On 08/01/15 14:26, Andre Roberge wrote:
I'm curious as to why, as far as I can tell and other than my own,
there are no proposals by anyone contributing to edu-sig to this
year's Pycon's Education Summit.
André
(I have written a blog post
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The RaspberryPi Foundation has a number of battle-tested resources you
could use. See http://raspberrypi.org
N.
On 17/12/14 13:27, Tamim Shahriar wrote:
I am going to conduct a workshop next month. I shall use Python in
the day-long workshop. The
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On 29/08/14 22:33, Jurgis Pralgauskis wrote:
empty?
-- Jurgis Pralgauskis tel: 8-616 77613; Don't worry, be happy and
make things better ;) http://galvosukykla.lt
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Likewise, I'm already at Europython. I'm one of the people helping to
organise the PyconUK Education Track (I used to be a teacher before
getting into programming).
All the best,
Nicholas.
On 21/07/14 08:50, Naomi Ceder wrote:
Hi Fernando,
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Dear All,
Yup, it's coming up to that time of year again...
http://pyconuk.org/education
Please tweet, retweet, blog, post, talk about and generally spread the
word - ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE IN THE UK!
We'll have around 40 teachers attending the
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On 30/01/14 02:08, A. Jorge Garcia wrote:
I'd love to know the answer too!
I think that using a quadrotor in AP Computer Science class would
be a great motivator. I think the site you linked to is geared
toward Linux and uses PyGame or
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Now in the Guardian too:
http://www.theguardian.com/info/developer-blog/2013/oct/03/teachers-students-pyconuk
N.
On 28/09/13 20:41, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote:
Hi,
Here's a write-up (one of many, but it's mine) about the PyconUK
2013 education
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On 29/09/13 04:31, Kirby Urner wrote:
Most interesting blog post. I watched all the videos and passed
along the info in my own blog, with a link back to your post:
http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2013/09/pythonuk-2013.html
I wonder how this STEM
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Hi,
Here's a write-up (one of many, but it's mine) about the PyconUK 2013
education track for teachers, students and developers that happened
last weekend:
http://ntoll.org/article/pyconuk2013-roundup
It was a great success and a lot of fun was had
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Hi Folks,
I realise many of you are not based in the UK (actually, out of
interest, who on this list is..?), but I thought you might be
interested in the following announcement:
Know any teachers..? Have you got kids..? Attending PyconUK at the end
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I guess this only applies to US citizens given the strap line of
School of Technology | Online, United States. I can think of plenty
of people Europe-side who'd be pretty damn good at this role.
There's also the rest of the world too... ;-)
N.
On
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I'd be willing to help but wouldn't be prepared to shoulder the full
burden of maintenance. There's something to be said for having a high
bus number. ;-)
N.
On 25/04/13 16:38, kirby urner wrote:
I'd gladly take it back however I'm also quite happy
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There are lots of ways this analogy could be extended with amusing
consequences (just remembering back to when I used to regularly teach
teenagers - they would have had a field day with it). :-)
It's like there's just one loo (but make sure you don't
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Hi EduSIGers,
Over the final weekend of September we held PyconUK 2012. I helped to
organise the education track (as mentioned previously on this list)
and I've finally found the time to write up what happened:
http://ntoll.org/article/pyconuk2012
hope we can figure out a way to collaborate.
I'd volunteer to come to PyCon UK to be a liaison , but sadly
that's not practical for a number of reasons... ;) But if any of
you could get to our con, you'd be welcome!
Cheers, Vern
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Nicholas H.Tollervey
nt
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Hi,
This sounds exactly like what we're doing at PyconUK
(http://pyconuk.org) in a few weeks time: we have an education track
full of talks, tutorials, discussion and even an educational
resources sprint taking place on the Sunday.
Our aim is
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Hi,
I'm a former teacher currently working as a Python developer and I've
stepped up to help organise the Education track at this year's
PyconUK (happening in September - see http://pyconuk.org).
Given this fact and the OP, education is making more
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Hi,
I got hold of a RaspberryPi alpha board for last year's PyconUK and
can confirm it most certainly does run Python. The machine I got had a
recent stable Debian on the SD card.
John Pinner currently has the machine if you need more info. I
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