Re: [Tutor] Recommended Resurce or strategy for beginning students

2019-02-04 Thread David
On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 15:03, David wrote: > > 1) The given title is misleading, in my opinion its subtitle would be much > more > representative: "Enabling students [by] example-driven teaching". Hi again, Sorry for replying to myself, but I want to correct something wrong that I wrote above.

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Resurce or strategy for beginning students

2019-02-04 Thread David
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 20:30, Matthew Polack wrote: > > Hi All, > > In our growing school we're teaching Python programming for the first time > as an elective subject with Year 9 and 10 students. (Had a dabble at this > last year with 3 students in Year 11) Hi Matthew and other readers, I

Re: [Tutor] Remove soft line break

2019-02-04 Thread Peter Otten
Valerio Pachera wrote: > > I have a file with row that split at the 80th character. > The next row start with a blank space, meaning that i part of the previous > row. > > Example: > > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam non justo > enim. Viv > amus dapibus quis neque

Re: [Tutor] Remove soft line break

2019-02-04 Thread Mats Wichmann
On 2/4/19 10:13 AM, Valerio Pachera wrote: > > I have a file with row that split at the 80th character. > The next row start with a blank space, meaning that i part of the previous > row. > > Example: > > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam non justo enim. > Viv >

[Tutor] Remove soft line break

2019-02-04 Thread Valerio Pachera
I have a file with row that split at the 80th character. The next row start with a blank space, meaning that i part of the previous row. Example: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam non justo enim. Viv amus dapibus quis neque vitae ornare. Pellentesque at pharetra

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Resurce or strategy for beginning students

2019-02-04 Thread Mike Barnett
Be cautious when using IDLE with tkinter based programs (PySimpleGUI falls into this category). IDLE is written using tkinter. You can sometimes end up with tkinter complaining about the mainloop running in multiple locations or freeing resources in the wrong thread.

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Resurce or strategy for beginning students

2019-02-04 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 04/02/2019 05:14, Matthew Polack wrote: > We had our first lesson today Congrats, hope it goes well. But... > 2.) Another smaller group started to hit the wall... I'm not a professional or trained teacher but over the last 30 years or so I've been involved in classes teaching everything

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Resurce or strategy for beginning students

2019-02-04 Thread Matthew Polack
Hi All, Firstly thanks so much for all the suggestions a while back re: recommended method for Python...really appreciate the ideas. We had our first lesson today (With 15 year olds) where I started with the basic command line..and did a simple "Hello World" type program...just to show how