[Edu-sig] update: satacad python pdx

[Kirby Urner]

Followup:

OK, Gini is on it.  I think it's dawning down at the PSU home office that
I'm a new guy.  Sure, I did the police station (West Precinct, Hillsboro),
but that's a totally different setup (RedHat9 lab, whereas OGI is WinXP, and
with its own rules I'm sure).

I'm told I have 7 kids signed up, 9th and 10th graders.  That'll be good.

The three packages I know I need:  Python (2.3 or 2.4), J, POVray.  Packages
I might need:  wxWindows, PythonCard, VPython, PyGeo.  Mostly I'm hoping to
enroll these students in the idea of using Python more on their own.  Since
I'll have a projector, I'll showcase stuff like wxWindows (demo) and PyGeo,
to give them ideas (Pygame as well).  I'll encourage them to get that my
course is about opening a lot of doors, but during the class itself, we will
only go through some of them, and many of those will be into realms of
mathematics, i.e. no new software downloads needed, in many cases.

Kirby

> -----Original Message-----
> From: edu-sig-bounces at python.org [mailto:edu-sig-bounces at python.org] On
> Behalf Of Kirby Urner
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 9:17 AM
> To: edu-sig at python.org
> Subject: [Edu-sig] update: satacad python pdx
> 
> 
> Well, it's the start of our business calendar in 2005, and time to see
> what's up with the accounts (accounts at 4dsolutions.net).  I big part of my
> month is allocated to this computer course, around which I built my grant
> proposal to the PSF.  Now let's see if it's going to actually happen.  I
> think from my side (the teacher), I've completed all the necessary paper
> work.
> 
> Kirby