Special Interest Group: Python in Education

[Guido van Rossum]

At the last Python Conference, nearly 40 people joined an after hours
discussion group on the use of Python in education.  We learned a lot
-- for example, that there are many different ways to teach
programming, and that different age groups require different
approaches.

One of the results of that meeting was the decision to create a
Special Interest Group (SIG) on the use of Python in education.  I
have created the SIG home page and a mailing list, and I invite you to
join the SIG.  I plan to post a summary of the meeting to the mailing
list, after some time waiting for people to join (you can always dig
missed posts out of the archives).  Here are the URLs:

http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig		(mailing list)

http://www.python.org/sigs/edu-sig/			(SIG home page)

Please forward this message to other relevant lists or individuals who
might be interested.  (I've already invited everyone who was at the
meeting or who has sent me email about CP4E over the past year.)

I don't have a fixed idea about what the charter of the SIG should be;
I'd like to see discussion of CP4E, but also of other issues related
to Python and education, and I'd like to include all levels of
education (from grade school to college level as well as adult
education), as long as people are interested in learning or teaching
Python.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)