[Edu-sig] Low Enrollments - programming as anti-intellectualism

[Arthur]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arthur [mailto:ajsiegel at optonline.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 7:44 AM
> To: 'Kirby Urner'; 'Scott David Daniels'; 'edu-sig at python.org'
> >
> > CS needs better movies, visualizations/animations, is the long and short
> > of
> > it -- of Knuth's 256-cylinder engine's internals along with the rest of
> it
> > (roar!).

Obviously, OTOH (to my previous post), there would not be a PyGeo if I found
a book approach fully satisfactory to what I was trying to achieve in
getting to geometric concepts.

Pascal's Mystic Hexagon (inscribed in a conic) is unconvincing and
uninspiring when viewed as a static illustration.  An animation of it is a
step forward.  Better yet is getting random access to it, in the form of a
dynamic construction.  

Not convinced that the three pairs of the continuations of opposite sides of
the inscribed hexagon meet on a straight line? 

Try me.

The difficulty in this stuff is recognizing, appreciating and exploiting new
possibilities  in a focused manner, without getting *too* excited and
generalizing *too* broadly about what those possibilities are and where they
get us.


Art