[Edu-sig] SIGCSE 2006 - Special Session on Teaching with Python

[Arthur]

Brad Miller wrote:

> The last note about the Python in Education BOF at PyCon inspired me 
> to send this out.
>
> John Zelle, Mark Guzdial, David Ranum, and myself will be hosting a 
> special session on teaching introductory computer science with Python 
> at SIGCSE this week.  I hope that this will be an opportunity to meet 
> some of you folks on the list face to face and have some great 
> discussion about teaching with Python.
>
> Hope to see you there!
>
> Brad--

Brad has been quiet about his publication


    Problem Solving
    with Algorithms
    and Data Structures
    Using Python


http://www.fbeedle.com/053-9.html

It's certainly of interest to me.

Of course Alan Kay expressed this week that the teaching of algorithms 
and data structures in CS is a problem:

that:
"""nothing exciting about computing today has to do with data structures 
and algorithms"""  (Kay being paraphrased at

http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/02/alan_kay_is_com.shtml)

I don't think people actually understand how easy it is to talk in the 
voice of a Visionary- like Kay does.  That's the only way he seems to 
talk in public - perhaps because that is what people have come to expect 
from him.  .  What he tends to say seems to me almost mundane, excepting 
its Grandiose Tone.  And I can only assume that people are impressed 
with the Balls it Takes to talk in such tones.  It can't really believe 
it's the content.

Art


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